Should we feel sad or glad for them? Viewed one way, Adam & Eve has just paid itself an awful lot of money to acquire a decent car account, Volkswagen. Looked at in another, what is arguably the UK’s most ...
Read More »Adam & Eve managers Murphy, Golding and Priest on top as they take over DDB London
John Lewis agency Adam & Eve, bought for £60m by Omnicom yesterday, seems to have executed a reverse takeover of flagging DDB London as the Adam & Eve-ites have emerged firmly on top in the merged agency’s management. The three ...
Read More »Whoops, there goes another one – Omnicom snaps up London indie Adam & Eve for reported £60m
It’s all rather depressing really, a new agency comes on the scene, scores highly (in this case with one account) and then sells out at the top of what might be a very short market. But that’s what seems to ...
Read More »Virgin and BBH walk into a row with the BBC over new David Tennant ‘Dr Who’ campaign
Virgin Media’s new TV campaign by newly-appointed agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty features the actor David Tennant, best-known for his stint as the BBC’s ever popular Dr Who. The ad features a Dr Who-style Tardis time machine (enclosing Virgin owner Richard ...
Read More »New BBH campaign for Virgin keeps Branson in his box – in this case a Tardis
It’s quite clear that the first thing you do when you’re pitching for a Virgin anything account is suggest to a relieved client that all your investigations show that Richard Branson should appear in it somewhere. You then have the ...
Read More »Was the the Mad Men era really defined by pyjamas?
Amongst other things, obviously it was. The fifth series of Mad Men starts Sunday in the US, and probably on Sky Atlantic in the UK. I wouldn’t know because I’m a Virgin customer in the UK and don’t have Sky ...
Read More »Can anyone catch AMV/BBDO in the UK? Maybe fast-rising BBH can
A lot of people would tell you that it matters not a jot who is the biggest agency in any country, ranked by media billings. Creative agencies don’t spend the media money and, in the YouTube age, fees don’t necessarily ...
Read More »Can DDB London’s new ‘Express Yourself’ campaign put some fizz into shavers for Philips?
Well it might do. DDB has always been good at providing a human dimension to the products it promotes, the agency understands that there’s no point in trying to sell something unless people like it. And DDB London has had ...
Read More »BBH sets seal on storming close to 2011 with £36m Virgin Media win
It’s the time of the year when hacks and others start musing about agency of the year gongs and, in the UK at least, it seems pretty obvious that the winner is going to be Bartle Bogle Hegarty. It has ...
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