If there’s anyone running one of WPP’s networks who looked a credible successor to Sir Martin Sorrell as ultimate boss it’s Miles Young, boss of Ogilvy & Mather. But Young, 61, has announced he’s stepping down to become warden of ...
Read More »Ogilvy muscles in on Coca-Cola media pitch
Coca-Cola is looking in at least one new direction in its current global media review, adding Ogilvy & Mather to a list of contenders that also includes fellow WPP agency MediaCom and incumbent Starcom MediaVest, according to a report in ...
Read More »Dove’s invitation to ‘choose beautiful’ is simplistic
More from Dove, this time courtesy of Ogilvy Chicago which is inviting women to ‘Choose Beautiful’ by deciding whether or not to pass through the ‘beautiful’ door or the ‘average’ one. But surely these aren’t the only two options. And ...
Read More »Hogarth ups stakes in the agency production wars with new Ogilvy partnership H&O
WPP in-house production giant Hogarth Worldwide and agency Ogilvy & Mather are forming a new “global creative powerhouse” (their words) called H&O. The two parties claim this will be “the largest marketing implementation group in the world.” On the face ...
Read More »Unilever rolls out anti-hunger corporate TV campaign
Unilever is launching a worldwide corporate TV campaign, via its Project Sunlight sustainability scheme. Project Sunlight has recruited a number of young ‘hunger activists’ to tackle world hunger. This is the US version, in tandem with Feeding America. There’s a ...
Read More »Matt Williams: Rory Sutherland of Ogilvy’s biggest idea – and it had nothing to do with ‘advertising’
First it was Dave Trott Now it’s another advertising legend that I’m going to spend a blog sucking up to. Last week I went along to the Admap 50th Anniversary party, where Rory Sutherland was one of the guest speakers. ...
Read More »Droga5’s latest for Diet Coke lacks fizz
Is fizzy drink/soda advertising going the same way as booze? Here’s Droga5’s new US ad for diet Coke, which seems to bear some relation to recent beer offerings like Wieden+Kennedy’s work for Heineken. Namely: if you’re not allowed to say ...
Read More »Ogilvy travels interestingly for award-winning Expedia
Never quite got round to this last week but Ogilvy London’s global campaign for travel outfit Expedia, ‘Travel Yourself Interesting,’ is indeed an interesting one; perhaps the agency’s biggest success alongside Dove’s ‘Real Beauty Sketches (which mostly hails from Brazil).’ ...
Read More »Ogilvy blasts its way to Cannes first day top spot
Cannes 2014: Ogilvy, which swept the board at last year’s Cannes Lions with over 100 of them (unseating BBDO as top network in the process) has got off to a flying a start with London’s Ogilvy One winning the Direct ...
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