Tag Archives: shanghai

Volkswagen is thought to be on the brink of leaving long-serving worldwide agency DDB in China, its second biggest market after Europe. Omnicom-owned DDB has had a pretty iron grip on the VW account for 60 years although it’s been ...

We occasionally refer to ‘WPP Towers,’ meaning its modest HQ in posh Mayfair’s Farm Street. That houses CEO Sir Martin Sorrell and WPP apparatchiks, not operating companies. In London the phrase ‘Omnicon Towers’ is more appropriate as the WPP rival ...

Peter Scott’s Engine Group is buying Shanghai-based digital and social agency FlipScript to create a global digital network with US-based deep Focus and London’s Jam. FlipScript employs 52 people and works for clients including Tourism Australia, Bally, Crocs and Starbucks. ...

A few years ago WPP-owned Ogilvy sprung a big surprise by hiring M&C Saatchi creative director Graham Fink, a veteran of the London agency scene (although he manages not to look like one), and transplanting him to China. Have they ...

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 ...

Bartle Bogle Hegarty, which has just been wholly-acquired by former part-owner Publicis Groupe, is demonstrating its global capabilities with the launch of this new ‘Camouflage’ campaign for Coca-Cola’s Sprite. The campaign emanated in BBH Shanghai with the involvement of BBH ...

Or some part of it anyway, as General Motors and Manchester United have scheduled a press conference in Shanghai tomorrow to announce a marketing deal. GM, you may recall, is based in Detroit and Man U is in, well, Manchester ...

The busy bees at the Wieden+Kennedy fun factory have been even busier than usual recently, launching this online film from animators Shotopop to highlight the joys awaiting lucky recruits to its Shanghai agency and quietly selling its iconic six-storey 220,000 ...

Omnicom-owned DDB is moving its chief creative officer Amir Kassaei and the network’s creative headquarters to Shanghai, a pretty emphatic underlining that China and the wider Far East region is where the money is these days. DDB CEO Chuck Brymer ...