The Fantastic Mr Fox, you may recall, is a Roald Dahl story about a fox, a much-decried species in the English countryside, who triumphs over his adversaries (boorish humans) through a mixture of cunning, wit and charm. And, it has ...
Read More »More Publicis fireworks: Senior to replace Roberts at Saatchi and Razorfish and Rosetta to merge
As we speculated about half an hour ago, Saatchi EMEA boss Robert Senior (left) is to replace Kevin Roberts as CEO of Saatchi Worldwide (Roberts is staying on for another couple of years in a job coaching senior management at ...
Read More »Will Harvey Keitel’s fixer from Pulp Fiction solve all Direct Line’s problems?
It seemed rather tough on M&C Saatchi when Direct Line insurance upped sticks and left for Saatchi & Saatchi (adding insult to injury) but, after umpteen years, its whizzing red lines had become a touch irritating although they had served ...
Read More »Saatchi nemesis David Herro joins shareholders at IPG
It’s Blackberrys on the beach time (for executives of a certain age) and there’s still speculation that the hols may be interrupted – as they were last summer – by a big takeover or merger move. Last year it was ...
Read More »Johnny Fearless founder and ECD Paul Domenet picks his Desert Island Ads
Paul Domenet began his career in Manchester before flying south to join DDB where he worked on Cannes Lion-winning work for Volkswagen. He then became deputy creative director of Y&R before moving to Saatchi & Saatchi in 1998. He was ...
Read More »Mad Men: how the Americans see off the Brits
British agencies have made many attempts to invade the glistering shores of Manhattan and all have failed, to a greater or lesser degree. Yes, BBH has a functioning office there, as does Mother. But the Yanks (as they were in ...
Read More »Saatchi takes the Park Life approach for Wall’sie
This is a rather fine example of what we might call the ‘Park Life’ school of advertising, from Saatchi & Saatchi for Wall’s sausages. A weekend ‘onesie’ (all in one kit) becomes a Wall’sie and, should you be quite sad, ...
Read More »Guinness embarks on pointless multi-agency pitch when all the evidence shows that BBDO can do the job
Guinness global strategy and communications director Grainne Wafer says the Diageo-owned brand is looking for a new global agency. “To drive better integration between idea generation and multi-channel execution we are looking to appoint a new agency to lead content ...
Read More »Ad agency Ungar Group crashes the Mad Men party
Why don’t ad agencies walk the walk and advertise themselves? The (airtime) money? They don’t want to fall on their noses with no client to blame for a bad ad? It doesn’t work? Charles and Maurice’s Saatchi & Saatchi launched ...
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