Ex-Engine CMO Richard Dutton (below) and ex-Wunderman Thompson head of strategy Marcus Reynolds are heading up Clockwork UK, the first expansion of the South African agency outside its homeland. Clockwork was founded in 2010. UK clients already include Reckitt Benckiser ...
Read More »NABS tries to tackle modern day misery in adland
Is adland a more misery-inducing location than it used to be? Most people would probably say yes, if only because – for those who survived a few years – recollections tend to be the good bits. But there’s also a ...
Read More »UK agencies muddle through (and Sir Martin Sorrell earns eight times more than anyone else)
Kingston Smith has produced its annual survey of UK agencies’ financial performance (including PR agencies), which shows that the industry in the UK grew by 3.5 per cent to reach an income of £1.3bn although operating profits were down a ...
Read More »WPP move with D&AD may help to end scandal of UK agency unpaid intern roles
I suppose congratulations to WPP are in order after it decided to offer paid internships at its leading London ad agencies and design companies as part of D&AD’s Young Blood initiative. But the truth is that it’s a scandal such ...
Read More »Here’s what Wieden+Kennedy thinks about Campaign’s UK agency ‘school reports’
Forgot to buy the issue of Campaign with its ‘School Reports’ (sometimes questionable judgements of top UK agencies). Here’s what Wieden+Kennedy’s Neil Christie (left) thinks of them. Each year Campaign magazine does its ‘school report’ evaluation of the performance of ...
Read More »GPS ad agency jury hides behind gobbledygook
UK ad agencies and trade body the IPA are appealing against the Government Cabinet Office’s recent shortlist to pitch for nearly £300m of government ad business. The Government Procurement Service’s application procedure (to get on the shortlist) was apparently based ...
Read More »UK government’s new ad agency ‘procurement’ system is a nightmare designed by a committee
The follies of the UK’s coalition government know no bounds and now this collection of muppets – who promised a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ when it came into power in 2010 – has produced a procurement system for agencies that ...
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