Robbie Williams, once unkindly dubbed ‘Blobby’ Williams, is a new face of WWW (Weight Watchers as was) along with Kate Hudson. Following its rebrand WW is now ‘For Every Body’ as we embark on that challenging 21st century journey towards ...
Read More »More revolving doors in Portland as Weight Watchers exits Wieden+Kennedy
It does sometimes seem to be revolving doors at Wieden+Kennedy’s celebrated Portland HQ. New client is appointed, client appoints W+K to transform employer’s moribund advertising, client leaves (for whatever reason) and account moves from W+K. The latest such instance is ...
Read More »Last words on the Super Bowl: Esurance and Weight Watchers go ‘Breaking Bad’
They do say that ads and programmes are coming closer together (online ads are certainly getting longer) and this year two Super Bowl advertisers rowed in on the success of the surprise TV drama hit Breaking Bad. Leo Burnett signed ...
Read More »Weight Watchers and W+K launch personal coaches
Weight Watchers is introducing ‘personal coaches’ – well doesn’t everyone have one these days darling? – and Wieden+Kennedy HQ has produced a typically off-the-wall ad for the new service, showing the eating temptations all around us – like chocolate phones. ...
Read More »Kitcatt Nohr sinks its teeth into Weight Watchers
London digital agency Kitcatt Nohr Digitas (Digitas bough Kitcatt Nohr 18 months ago) has won Weight Watchers’ £500,000 customer relationship management account (CRM). I’m never quite sure what CRM is but it’s something to do with keeping existing customers happy ...
Read More »Is the China agency market ready for Fred & Farid?
It seems entirely appropriate that Fred & Farid, the indie Paris agency 30 per cent owned by Havas chairman Vincent Bollore, is planning to set up shop in Shanghai in a former opium warehouse. It’s also not really a surprise ...
Read More »Fred & Farid makes Weight Watchers sexy
Which is fairly remarkable for a business that once had the Duchess of York as an ambassador but Havas-backed Paris agency Fred & Farid is always full of surprises. Some people are already tipping this as one to bother the ...
Read More »Ad spat over as Weight Watchers tells agencies to grow up
The threatened legal action between Interpublic and MDA-owned Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners is over as Lori Senecal’s new agency agreed not to poach any more staff from her former agency McCann-Erickson for at least six months. Even by the ...
Read More »Oh Lori! Ad war breaks out between Kirshenbaum and McCanns
A New York ad war has broken out between ambitious Toronto-based MDC, owner of Kirshenbaum Bond and McCann-Erickson, former home to Kirschenbaum Bond’s new president-ceo Lori Senecal (who’s now got her name on the door too). Lawyers have been called ...
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