Saatchi & Saatchi New York’s ‘It’s a Tide Ad’ tops the WARC Effective 100 for most awarded campaigns in 2019. It increased Procter & Gamble’s Tide sales to $75m. Media was by Hearts & Science. In second place is Oyster ...
Read More »P&G unveils Spanish “mental overload” mystery
Have marketers taken leave of their senses? Maybe it’s all that data. Here’s the mighty Procter & Gamble and Proximity Madrid investigating women’s “mental overload,” to what end we know not. Maybe it’s something to do with International Women’s Day. ...
Read More »Egard Watches cashes in on Gillette ad rumpus
Egard Watches is a relative newbie in the timepiece game (2012) but it’s become surprisingly famous by taking a pop at Gillette’s now-notorious “toxic masculinity” ad. This purported to present a new view of men, suitable for the #MeToo era. ...
Read More »George Parker: how I played and lost the P&G numbers game
News in last week’s Ad Age that that Procter & Gamble is reorganizing its management structure to get greater efficiencies from its semi-autonomous business units, almost made me choke on my breakfast beer. No matter how it reorganizes itself it ...
Read More »Embattled P&G misses targets but agency cull goes on
Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble is in trouble. Fourth quarter revenue missed target narrowly ($16.5bn against $16.54bn as did sales growth (one per cent against 2.3 per cent). Net income was down a thumping 14.9 per cent to $1.89bn ...
Read More »P&G’s Pritchard sets up his own agency – with a little help from Publicis, WPP and Omnicom.
Procter & Gamble chief brand officer Marc Pritchard said he wanted to “take back control” of his marketing budget and he’s doing so; creating a dedicated full service agency from Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi, WPP’s Grey and Omnicom’s Hearts ...
Read More »New WPP UK boss Blackett lifts lid on payment options
WPP’s newly-ensconced UK “country manager” Karen Blackett – who made her name at MediaCom – has been telling The Drum that she sees small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) as an important and overlooked market for companies like hers. SME defined ...
Read More »Less is (much) more from W+K for Old Spice
This should prompt a smile from P&G marketing boss Marc Pritchard as he tries to reduce marketing and media costs: a new Old Spice product, all in 15 seconds of airtime. From Wieden+Kennedy HQ, who usually take a bit longer ...
Read More »P&G rides Super Bowl ad wave for Tide
If ads play a big role in the Super Bowl why not make an ad about other Super Bowl ads? Pepsi tried (and failed) with a reprise of some of its own, P&G’s Tide has done rather better with this ...
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