The late Paul Simons was a former chairman and CEO of Ogilvy London. Here’s his take (from July) on new Ogilvy global boss Andy Main. The news about Andy Main (below) being seduced by WPP to leave Deloitte’s and take ...
Read More »Paul Simons: is the new marketing model upstream consultants and downstream ad agencies?
Here’s another piece (topical still, from earlier this year) by MAA’s Paul Simons who sadly died earlier this week. Paul was a previous chairman and CEO of Ogilvy UK. Sir Martin Sorrel said, “There are very significant opportunities for a ...
Read More »Ogilvy’s Andy Main lures Devika Bulchandani from McCann in first big move
New Ogilvy CEO Andy Main, hired from Deloitte Digital, has made his first big move, bringing in Devika Bulchandani from McCann as North America CEO and global chairwoman of advertising – whatever that means. Maybe that she knows more about ...
Read More »More trouble at Grey London as CEO in limbo – is a WPP merger with Ogilvy coming nearer?
Grey London has been anything but grey in recent years, with seemingly countless comings and goings. Not that long ago Grey in New York and London (and very possibly Poland, of which more anon) was the jewel in Grey’s creative ...
Read More »WPP merges Grey Paris into Ogilvy – is a much bigger deal on the cards?
WPP is merging Grey Paris into Ogilvy Paris – both still operating under separate brand names – in what may be the first of many such mergers among the big ad holding companies’ venerable creative networks. The merged agency will ...
Read More »Can Deloitte Digital’s Andy Main trigger “creative transformation” at WPP’s Ogilvy?
Ogilvy is, or was, the biggest agency in WPP’s creative line-up and for WPP CEO Mark Read to achieve his promised “creative transformation” needs to be firing on all cylinders. Its new global CEO to replace long-serving John Seifert (41 ...
Read More »Seifert’s exit leaves question marks over WPP’s Ogilvy
WPP CEO Mark Read has (another) big decision to make – who’s going to succeed John Seifert as worldwide CEO and chairman of Ogilvy? And what kind of agency will it be? Seifert (above) has spent a scarcely believable (by ...
Read More »More agency mergers may be on the cards for WPP although holding company says no major ones planned
Is WPP CEO Mark Read planning more agency mergers? Speaking to investors recently Read, alongside the usual stuff about partnering more with tech companies and the surprising revelation that Google was WPP’s second-biggest client, said the mergers of JWT with ...
Read More »Boots Opticians joins the fashionistas in Ogilvy’s best so far
Somehow or other Boots is still with us on the struggling British high street although it looks urgently in need of a retread. But people still need pharmacies.. Ogilvy took over the reins from Mother a couple of years ago ...
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