So it’s a whopper but this prison break themed opus from Ogilvy does the job – counting down the days of a prison break timed for an India-Pakistan cricket match when the would-be escapees think the guards will all be ...
Read More »AdScammer and author George Parker picks his Desert Island Ads
I was flattered when Stephen asked me to sully the pages of MAA with my choice of “Desert Island Ads.” After all, the previous writers have indeed been the crème of London’s adverati whose opinions are valued in the best ...
Read More »Now Coke’s Grand Prix winner from China is dragged into the scam ads debate
Scam ads look like being the flavour of the year following JWT India’s Ford Figo fiasco. Now Leo Burnett has withdrawn two winning radio ads for Tata from the same Goafest ad awards and similar cases seem to be emerging ...
Read More »Do WPP’s becalmed London creative agencies need a business blood transfusion?
Marcoms giant WPP has four big (or supposedly big) creative agencies in London – JWT, RKCR/Y&R, Grey and Ogilvy – and 49 per cent of the relatively new CHI. But, rather strangely, according to Campaign/Nielsen figures for 2012, JWT, Grey ...
Read More »Media data manager Collider moves into Europe with former iAd sales boss Theo Theodorou
Former iAD EMEA head of sales Theo Theodorou (left) is joining online data management company Collider to help build its European business. Collider aims to help publishers earn more from their inventory by building cross-screen campaigns. Collider claims it can ...
Read More »What’s in a move? Brian Cooper moves from Apple to Ogilvy and Paul Hammersley ships up at Dare
Sometimes people move from one agency to another just because they do; in other cases it might mean a bit more. Two such surfaced in Campaign this week; Brian Cooper (left) is joining Ogilvy in London as ECD to work ...
Read More »Former Ogilvy writer John Kenney lifts the literary lid on ‘truth in advertising’
Former Ogilvy copywriter John Kenney has written his first novel called Truth In Advertising – does John have a satirical intent? And what better way to promote such a tome than a faux focus group about – a book called ...
Read More »Kimberley-Clark and Ogilvy tackle vaginas head-on
This is the kind of thing that used to be controversial – maybe it still is in India – but Kimberly-Clark, through agency Ogilvy, is running a series of online films and ads trying to dispel myths about women’s vaginas ...
Read More »WPP closes in on mystery Chinese company Huawei
Here’s an interesting one: Ad Age reports that WPP has ‘edged out’ Omnicom in what seems to have been a two-horse race for Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (‘Hway-hay’ is what you say apparently). Huawei is a global business-to-business supplier (worth ...
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