Tag Archives: WPP

Some groups in UK adland are protesting vociferously about coverage of Jo Wallace, a leading player in the JWT sex discrimination case. Specifically an article on Mail Online. Complaints have been made to IPSO, the rather toothless replacement for the ...

Former JWT creative director Chas Bayfield and his colleague Dave Jenner who have successfully taken JWT to an employment tribunal for sex discrimination deserve a medal. As it happens, Jenner is thought to have left the industry while Bayfield is ...

Can holding company CCOs actually make a difference or a are they, as some say of politicians, destined to fail? For the former it probably depends on how you assess their impact. Under former global CCO John O’Keefe WPP appeared ...

Healthcare used to be one of those things that agencies did – but no-one wanted to talk about it much (although the money was reportedly good) or work on it. But, as the world tiptoes out of the pandemic, healthcare ...

Something seems to be stirring at UK retailer Boots, seemingly left to wither on the vine by owner Walgreens Boots Alliance. The pandemic has been good for pharmacies, of course, and Boots has done its bit towards the vaccination and ...

WPP is off to a flyer in this year’s (virtual) Cannes Lions – two years of entries – with Grand Prix for Ogilvy’s already celebrated Dove ‘Courage is beautiful’ pandemic campaign in Press and Publishing and David Miami’s ‘Moldy Whopper’ ...

WPP’s GroupM is forecasting 24% growth for the UK ad market in 2021 – up from its previous forecast of 12.4% – a rate of growth its president of business intelligence Brian Weiser describes as “astonishing.” Weiser (left) told Campaign: ...

Another day, more big media reviews: $800m Bayer is reviewing out of WPP and Omnicom’s PHD while WPP’s bespoke shop Plus is also on the line for Chanel (below), about $400m on media although it spends far more on other ...

Is the worst over for the ad holding companies? Their obituary is written regularly (almost daily in the early stages of the pandemic) but both WPP and Interpublic have seen their shares hit year-highs recently, a sign that investors are ...