It’s trebles all around at WPP HQ in Farm Street, Mayfair, this morning (and, no doubt, at Ogilvy offices across the world) as the world’s biggest marcoms group celebrates a stonking victory in the Cannes Lions Holding Company of the ...
Read More »Ogilvy hands out a Cannes awards tonking to BBDO
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell is rather keen on winning the absurd Holding Company of the Year gong at Cannes (don’t think they’ve been badgered into calling it a Grand Prix yet) and the apple of his beady eye will ...
Read More »Fallon’s zombie tour de force for Giffgaff, A&E/DDB and Deutsch battle it out for VW creative laurels
***Some interesting ads at the end of this holiday week: here’s a zombie opus from Fallon UK for mobile network Giffgaff – whose point of difference seems to be that its members help each other. Takes all sorts I suppose. ...
Read More »TBWA’s Being Worldwide to open in Shanghai
Omnicom-owned TBWW is launching an new outpost of its Being Worldwide network in Shanghai. Being boss Nicholas Bordas (left) says: “Je suis convaincu que sous la direction de Shel, Being Shanghai aura un grand succès auprès des de clients à ...
Read More »72andSunny on top of owner MDC’s world as it carries away the ‘Grand Effie’ for Activision
It’s proving to be a pretty good year for California’s 72andSunny; top of Ad Age’s A-List and now the winner of the Grand Effie in the Effie Awards for most effective this and that. 72andS won with Activision Blizzard’s third ...
Read More »WPP chuffed with Omnicom travails, BBH puts its hopes in Lafferty and BBC’s Today goes girl hunting
***A happy man tonight will be Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of WPP. He’s seen Omnicom slashing jobs at BBDO, after Interpublic’s McCann the world’s biggest agency network, following the loss of $300m Gillette to WPP’s Grey. More than that, he’ll ...
Read More »Omnicom slashes jobs at BBDO and Goodby in the wake of big account losses
Omnicom agencies BBDO and Goodby Silverstein have been wielding the axe according to Ad Age, with around ten per cent of BBDO’s staff – hundreds of people – being laid off in the wake of the loss of $300m Gillette ...
Read More »Grey reinforces status as cutting edge of WPP agency line-up with global Gillette gain
WPP-owned Grey has been the coming force among the world’s big traditional agencies for some time now; in particular its New York operation headed by creative Tor Myrhen. The agency has just won Procter & Gamble’s global Gillette account from ...
Read More »The Chinese arrive in UK marcoms land as Blue Focus buys a fifth of quoted PR outfit Huntsworth
First up Huntsworth boss Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) says he wanted to buy leading Chinese PR firm Blue Focus. But now BF, led by Oscar Zhao (left), has, in effect, turned the tables by buying 19.8 per cent ...
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