WPP CEO Mark Read has made a big statement about the holdng company’s commitment to classical advertising values with the surprise appointment of Rob Reilly, creative chairman of Interpublic’s McCann Worldgroup, as WPP’s new global CCO. Reilly (above) replaces John ...
Read More »David Schwimmer swims against British tide for TSB
Stars of ‘Friends’ keep on befriending us in all sorts of unlikely ways and now David Schwimmer has been enlisted by McCann to put a human face on TSB, the rather troubled bank which has abandoned animation for a more, ...
Read More »Snoop Dogg joins Just Eat’s insistent chorus
McCann London’s ‘Did somebody say Just Eat’ is a real throwback – to the days when jingles ruled the airwaves. But it undoubtedly works, even if it drives you mad. Now, though, Just Eat is going all sophisticated, enlisting rapper ...
Read More »Aldi throws down gauntlet to middle classes with ‘Like’
Advertising, as well as lots of other things obviously, clearly works for Aldi and it’s back with a new campaign, ‘Like.’ Which is pushing at an open door really (two gripes – it no longer sells newspapers and its delivery ...
Read More »McCann chooses a winner for the New York Lottery
Is the UK’s National Lottery planning a Christmas campaign? Other lotteries seem to have realised that a lottery ticket is a one way out of the Christmas prezzie conundrum; not too much but might just be worth a lot, so ...
Read More »McCann hits the right patriotic note for Vauxhall
Vauxhall is one of those anomalies of British life (elsewhere it’s Opel), one that might disappear if Boris’ Brexiters get their way. And, somehow or other, there are few things more British than men in vans (and women of course, ...
Read More »Deloitte Digital poaches McCann boss, MPC speeds up move into advertising
We hear a lot about Accenture Interactive, less about Deloitte Digital which runs a sizable operation encroaching on adland’s traditional turf. Now DD has hired McCann New York COO Rich Whalen as MD of its US creative and studio offering, ...
Read More »Interpublic trailblazer Phil Geier dies at 84
Phil Geier (Philip H. Geier Jr to give him his full title) was chairman and CEO of Interpublic from 1980 to 2000, when he turned Marion Harper’s Interpublic into the biggest ad holding group in the world. He began his ...
Read More »GM and MRM/McCann launch Certified Story Time
The global car industry’s in trouble so the biggest car manufacturers are trying all manner of wheezes to spark it into action. One of the problems is that people have finally wised up to the phenomenal depreciation of cars once ...
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