WPP’s Ogilvy finds itself in hot water over a video produced for the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CPB) showing the (allegedly) civilised facilities in its Tucson facility. Ogilvy has a contract with the CPB worth a purported $12m ...
Read More »David exodus from Ogilvy shows problems holding companies have retaining creative talent
One of WPP’s better ideas in recent years was to form David, an Ogilvy offshoot named after founder David Ogilvy. But all isn’t well: David Miami MD and global COO Paulo Fogaca is off to join David founders Juan Javier ...
Read More »More changes at WPP’s Ogilvy as it searches for former glories in new clothes
WPP’s US sales are heading south and CEO Mark Read has blamed this roundly on the performance of his creative agencies. Ogilvy is the biggest of these and global CEO John Seifert has been shuffling the deck chairs, becoming interim ...
Read More »Pols and Mecklenburg set up new agency Truth & Spectacle
Two former Ogilvy execs – creative director Ivan Pols and consultant Alex Mecklenburg have formed a new “creative business consultancy” called Truth & Spectacle, named after an observation by legendary film director Stanley Kubrick. Mecklenburg, a former MD of agency ...
Read More »Ogilvy raises its creative bar with Sipsmith’s Mr Swan
Ogilvy UK has won buckets of new business recently despite some internal travails but what it needed was a really good ad. Now it has one for Sipsmith Gin, one of the countless new artisan gin brands on the UK ...
Read More »British Airways centenary ad looks back to a more civil era
British Airways is marketing its centenary this year (the centenary of its many forebears actually, it didn’t become BA until 1974) with an Ogilvy campaign hymning..good old Britain. And flying the flag (a rather more memorable BA campaign than anything ...
Read More »Engine unveils its three new pillars – but is this wise?
Engine, the marcoms group set up by former WCRS founder Peter Scott, announced last year that it was getting rid of agency brands – including WCRS (Scott had departed some time before.) Engine is now owned by US firm Lake ...
Read More »Ogilvy springs a surprise with new global CCO Piyush Pandey
It’s all change at WPP’s Ogilvy this year and now the WPP network has made another bold move by appointing Ogilvy India chairman Piyush Pandey (below) as its new global CCO. Pandey succeeds Tham Khai Meng who left under a ...
Read More »Honorary Mad Mad Jane Maas dies at 86
I see that Madison Avenue pioneer – and pithy commentator on its Mad Men doings – Jane Maas has died at 86. We’ve reported on her various books and observations here and the New York Times gives her the obit ...
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