Tag Archives: Wunderman Thompson

Wunderman Thompson has hired Sid McGrath as UK chief strategy officer. McGrath joins from Karmarama where he spent 14 years building the agency, now part of Accenture Interactive. McGrath’s role in stitching creative, data and technology together there is named ...

UK mobile network EE seems to be taking this ‘network envy’ thing seriously – we didn’t much like Kevin Bacon’s launch effort from Saatchi & Saatchi but here’s another, this time from Wunderman Thompson featuring “spoken word artist’ (aka poet) ...

WPP’s Wunderman Thompson has won Hastings Direct, a biggish UK insurance company, following a competitive pitch. Hastings is on Britain’s south coast and named after the seaside town, famously near to the Battle of Hastings (William the Conqueror and all ...

Amid the ravages of Covid-19 it’s easy to overlook the devastating effect of other illnesses. One such is Parkinson’s and in Australia Parkinson’s NSW and WundermanThompson are launching a campaign to help people spot the symptoms, using the good old ...

Tamara Ingram (below) is stepping down as global chair of Wunderman Thompson, after a long career including CEO roles at Saatchi & Saatchi and Grey before she took over at JWT following the Gustavo Martinez affair and prior to JWT’s ...

WPP is back on the acquisition trail: Wunderman Thompson has bought Miami-based XumaK, termed a “premier marketing technology consultancy” specialising in “implementing performance-driven commerce solutions.” Clients have included Digicel and MetLife. Founded in 2004, XumaK is a relative minnow with ...

HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation as was) has been telling us Brits that “we are not an island” for a while now, even though we clearly live on one. It’s back with a new Wunderman Thompson effort fronted ...

KitKat has always been one of the JWT’s most famous clients, now owned by Nestle and, before that, the late lamented Rowntrees. But it isn’t JWT any more it’s Wunderman Thompson so it’s pretty important that the (fairly) newly-minted WPP ...

This is a big one for the (relatively) newly minted Wunderman Thompson, its debut global campaign for Duracell since winning the business back in April. Duracell, once in the P&G fold, is now owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, which ...