London agency WCRS is having its best year for decades but, it emerges, owner Engine is planning to consign it to history in another one of those mystifying agency shake-ups aimed at persuading clients they’re getting more from less. Engine, ...
Read More »WPP heads for FT South Bank building, Laurentino moves up to be Ogilvy UK CCO
WPP is in advanced talks to buy the Financial Times’s London headquarters at One Southwark Bridge for £93m, continuing the trend of giant centralised HQs in adland. It already has similar operations in Amsterdam and Toronto. At the same time ...
Read More »CSO Chesters joins Ogilvy brain drain
Ogilvy UK CSO Kevin Chesters (below) has quit, hard on the heels of agency CEO Charlie Rudd, Jo Coombs head of OgilvyOne who’s teaming up again with new Publicis Groupe UK country manager Annette King, production head Clare Donald and ...
Read More »Paul Simons: is Ogilvy’s need for a new identity behind yet another dramatic London departure?
The number of senior departures from Ogilvy UK is scarcely believable and now CCO Mick Mahoney is the latest to leave. Mahoney (below) follows in the footsteps – doubtless still sizzling Road Runner style – of fellow CCO Emma De ...
Read More »Creative boss Emma de la Fosse joins Ogilvy exodus
Ogilvy UK group CCO Ema de la Fosse (below) is the latest in a series of exits from Ogilvy, not just on this side of the Atlantic as it’s been losing people like topsy in the US too. Maybe its ...
Read More »Dove goes animated in Cartoon Network self-esteem tie-up
Ogilvy’s work for Unilever’s Dove over the years has given the brand a kind of good works halo but leaves the question: where does it go from here? A tie-up with Cartoon Network in a new series Steven Universe, exploring ...
Read More »WPP has two big agency CEO roles to fill: who will take up the challenge?
WPP is facing a test in the UK as it searches for CEOs to lead two of its biggest agencies, Ogilvy and Grey. Ogilvy’s Charlie Rudd – who was CEO of the ad agency, but recently had the title of ...
Read More »Question marks over Ogilvy UK’s dramatic restructure as ad boss Charlie Rudd quits
Michael Frohlich’s controversial restructuring of Ogilvy UK has had another predictable consequence: former Ogilvy & Mather CEO Charlie Rudd, who led a revival of the agency, has quit his post as chief client officer. Ogilvy & Mather disappeared in the ...
Read More »Now Ogilvy fires worldwide creative chief Tham Khai Meng following internal investigation
The current round of house cleaning in adland in the wake of #MeToo – some might call it a purge – has claimed its highest profile victim to date, Ogilvy Group CCO Tham Kai Meng who’s led creative at Ogilvy ...
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