Tag Archives: y&r

A late posting on this site Friday afternoon caught my eye. It concerned an agency boss fulminating about the role of intermediaries and questioning their level of contribution to the pitch process. I thought it was a cheap shot. The ...

Life goes on at WPP even as it mulls the successor to Sir Martin Sorrell and key to its fortunes are its big agency networks, the foundation of the business. New markets are also crucial and WPP’s operations in China ...

The UK government’s Think! campaign aimed at combating drink driving has had many successes from good agencies, most notably AMV BBDO. So the bar’s set pretty high for new agency Y&R which, instead of showing us damaged bodies and cars, ...

The Winter Olympics are almost upon us, to be held in South Korea, you know, that place with a missile-toting dictator across the border. Was this on the mind of agency Y&R and animators Smith and Foulkes as they produced ...

Well there we are then: Paul Lawson (left), CEO of Leo Burnett London for the past six years, is indeed upping sticks to Y&R London in the same role, as we suggested yesterday. Current Y&R London CEO Jon Sharpe, former ...

This week tech giant Apple held the first major event in their freshly finished Steve Jobs Theater on billion-dollar Apple Campus, with the iPhone X (pronounced “ten”) glistening as the jewel in their 2017 crown. One announcement stands out as ...

Here’s a load of balls for the BBC’s Wimbledon coverage from Y&R London. Balls have had their moments in commercials, for Sony for example, which may have been on someone at Y&R’s mind. A punchy 40 seconds – and a ...

I see that Y&R has won the UK’s Think! Road Safety account, previously held by AMV BBDO and, over the years, one of the UK’s flagship creative accounts. Here’s one made for Surrey Council, of all entities. The new regime ...

We often hear about agencies hiring creative teams. Y&R’s new CCO Jon Burley has gone a big step further by hiring a whole team of creatives, 12 in all. A creative department “renaissance” it seems. Top of the list is ...