Alexandre Gama (above) is the new CCO of BBH (succeeding Sir John Hegarty) following the sale of his Neogama agency in Brazil to Publicis Groupe. Here he talks exclusively about the role of BBH after the Omnicom/Publics merger, the challenges ...
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Alexandre (Ale) Gama founded leading Brazil agency Neogama in 1999. The agency partnered with BBH in 2002 and became the network’s Latin America hub. In 2012 Gama was appointed worldwide CCO of BBH by predecessor Sir John Hegarty when Publicis ...
Read More »Alexandre Gama’s Neogama shows what it can bring to new BBH with winner Johnnie Walker ad
I never quite got the Johnnie Walker ‘Keep Walking’ campaign from BBH although it was easy to see why you needed to be a touch left field to market scotch whisky globally – given that you can’t say it tastes ...
Read More »Nigel Bogle joins BBH’s knights of Kingly Street – have they forgotten about John Bartle?
Bartle Bogle Hegarty co-founder Nigel Bogle (left) has picked up a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, meaning that two of the agency’s three founders (creative director John Hegarty became Sir John a few years ago) are now officially members ...
Read More »WPP chuffed with Omnicom travails, BBH puts its hopes in Lafferty and BBC’s Today goes girl hunting
***A happy man tonight will be Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of WPP. He’s seen Omnicom slashing jobs at BBDO, after Interpublic’s McCann the world’s biggest agency network, following the loss of $300m Gillette to WPP’s Grey. More than that, he’ll ...
Read More »Publicis Groupe/BBH deal starts to unravel as key agency Neogama loses two biggest accounts
Not all fairy tales have a happy ending. One such is the marriage of convenience between Brazilian hotshop Neogama, its micro-network affiliate BBH and Publicis Groupe. Readers will recall that, a little over six months ago, Publicis chief Maurice Lévy ...
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