Brazilian Andre Laurentino takes top creative job at TBWA London
TBWA London, one of Omnicom’s key offices, has appointed Brazilian Andre Laurentino as creative director of TBWA London. Laurentino (who’s also known as Dede, like Pele I suppose) replaces Canadian...
View ArticleY&R boss Sable is proud to be the boss of an ad agency (as opposed to a...
What we used to call advertising agencies (and mostly still do) have always had naming problems. There’s a perennial fear that advertising is old hat, that the future is something else and the name of...
View ArticleDDB London looks to gain momentum from planning shake-up
One of the more interesting agency transformations of recent times is going on at DDB London, the UK outpost of one of the great creative agency networks and, before that, the legendary UK hotshop...
View ArticleGuardian lines up agencies for rescue mission
The Guardian newspaper is reviewing its ad account, historically one of UK adland’s trophy accounts although the cash-strapped paper is only expected to spend about £2m with the lucky winner. As you’d...
View ArticleEarly death of Philip Gould reminds us of the days when admen ruled the UK...
And Philip Gould (latterly Lord Gould) wasn’t even a particularly famous adman before he was chosen by New Labour presiding genius Peter Mandelson (later Lord…etc, etc) to be the about-to-be-revived...
View ArticleDDB London puts the Financial Times’ ducks in a (Eurozone) row
The Financial Times has had a good credit crunch war and seems to be in shape for the next one, as world economies stand on the edge of a cliff and decide not to take a sensible step backwards. This...
View ArticleIt’s the appliance of science for DDB London as data chief Islam joins from ITV
In its former guise as Boase Massimi Pollitt DDB London was one of the inventors of account planning (as it then was) and now the agency is trying to make the whole business more scientific by hiring...
View ArticleDave Trott, now of MSQ and formerly of Media Square, sends me another missive
Today the failed Media Square mini-marcoms group became MSQ, a management buy-out for about £11m of the company that, before the administration and subsequent buy-out, owed £30m. One of the integral...
View ArticleBreak-up of odd couple that kept AMV BBDO on top
The decision of Farah Ramzan Golant, executive chairman of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, to leave the agency and become chief executive of independent production group All3Media, brings to an end one of...
View ArticleUK adland’s favourite Mr Fix-it Al Cluer dies
I see from the FT that Al Cluer, who made a career out of persuading previously snooty showbiz celebrities to appear in ads has died at 72. Cluer (pictured centre left with director Hugh Hudson and...
View ArticleNew film celebrates BMP creative genius John Webster
For my money, London’s Boase Massimi Pollitt, founded in 1968 and sold to DDB in 2004, was the best creative agency. It combined cleverness – in the shape of Martin Boase and Chris Powell (account men...
View ArticleAdam&Eve shows its populist side for Phones 4u
The amazing transmogrification of DDB London under its new bosses the Adam&Eve crew continues. This new ad for Phones 4u would never have emerged from Bishop’s Bridge Road as was, DDB’s HQ and...
View ArticleWhatever happened to: 1968’s top UK agencies
Came across this list in a piece in Campaign about Boase Massimi Pollitt, now adam&eveDDB. So, you might want to ask, where are they now and who, if anyone, owns them? London adland was about to...
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Early death of Philip Gould reminds us of the days when admen ruled the UK...
And Philip Gould (latterly Lord Gould) wasn’t even a particularly famous adman before he was chosen by New Labour presiding genius Peter Mandelson (later Lord…etc, etc) to be the about-to-be-revived...
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DDB London puts the Financial Times’ ducks in a (Eurozone) row
The Financial Times has had a good credit crunch war and seems to be in shape for the next one, as world economies stand on the edge of a cliff and decide not to take a sensible step backwards. This...
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It’s the appliance of science for DDB London as data chief Islam joins from ITV
In its former guise as Boase Massimi Pollitt DDB London was one of the inventors of account planning (as it then was) and now the agency is trying to make the whole business more scientific by hiring...
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Dave Trott, now of MSQ and formerly of Media Square, sends me another missive
Today the failed Media Square mini-marcoms group became MSQ, a management buy-out for about £11m of the company that, before the administration and subsequent buy-out, owed £30m. One of the integral...
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Break-up of odd couple that kept AMV BBDO on top
The decision of Farah Ramzan Golant, executive chairman of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, to leave the agency and become chief executive of independent production group All3Media, brings to an end one of...
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UK adland’s favourite Mr Fix-it Al Cluer dies
I see from the FT that Al Cluer, who made a career out of persuading previously snooty showbiz celebrities to appear in ads has died at 72. Cluer (pictured centre left with director Hugh Hudson and...
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New film celebrates BMP creative genius John Webster
For my money, London’s Boase Massimi Pollitt, founded in 1968 and sold to DDB in 2004, was the best creative agency. It combined cleverness – in the shape of Martin Boase and Chris Powell (account men...
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