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Following a lengthy process and an awful lot of money, we now know Andy Coulson is guilty of conspiring to intercept voice-mail messages; he is also to be retried on the remaining charges. Rebekah Brooks has been acquitted though - and this is not...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Real Madrid's superstar Welsh left-winger Gareth Bale has been scooped up by BT Sports to star in the latest campaign to promote its European football rights. The campaign is centred around an ad, created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, which features...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hot on the heels of the recent news that RajDeepak Das will be joining the Leo Burnett Group as chief creative officer, it's been announced that Prajato Guha Thakurta and Sachin Kamble will also be joining the agency as associate executive creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The “100% Real 2014” campaign for McDonald's, designed by TBWA\ANG, an advertising agency based in Gzira, Malta, has recently 'gone viral' online, with its sheer ingenuity and creativity picking up kudos from many of the world's major...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced towards the end of last week that Roshni Hegerman will be joining McCann Australia's planning department as senior planner at the agency's Sydney office. Hegerman joins McCann after a stint as planning director at BBDO India, where...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
M&C Saatchi has been hired by the click-and-collect online shopping service, Doddle to handle its creative and PR account ahead of a national launch, which is planned to go ahead in 300 locations in major rail stations and shopping centres across the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Publicis Groupe announced yesterday the launch of ROAR, an agency built from the ground-up to be a full-service digital shop, with the very-best specialist digital talent drawn from within the group itself. The idea behind ROAR is to bring...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
WPP CEO, Sir Martin Sorrell has survived yet another revolt against his gigantic salary and bonus package, after over a quarter of the advertising giant's shareholders failed to back it at the company's annual general meeting yesterday, which took...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hot on the heels of this year's Cannes Lions Festival, Publicis CEO Maurice Levy has made a statement admitting that the planned merger between his group and Omnicom, which fell apart back in May, will cost the company between 40 and 50 million...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tesco hasn't had an easy time of it lately. First the horse meat scandal, then the bad news that last quarter saw a 3% drop in sales. Since then, Tesco’s been doing some serious soul searching, questioning everything from its ethics and health...
Posted by: bluemarlin
One in three Britons is now overweight. One in five is obese. As far as one can trust statistics, that's the picture giving rise to some hefty soul searching this week. How did this happen? What is to be done about it? And who's to blame? That's the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Leo Burnett announced earlier this week that Y&R Canada has welcomed Alum Bayley into its ranks as senior vice president and global client leader for its BMO (Bank of Montreal) North American business. Bayley will be working from the agency's Toronto...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
VCCP has created a TV spot for car rental company, Avis called “Unlock the World,” which made its televisual debut last night during the World Cup match between England and Costa Rica. The campaign, which was written by Kieran Knight and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
mmadigital, the Manchester-based specialist online marketing agency for the legal sector, has completed a hat-trick of summer hires by appointing Phil Howells, the creative genius behind the “It's a bit of an animal” campaign for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Saatchi & Saatchi Latin America and Conill Advertising, Saatchi & Saatchi's multicultural unit, announced yesterday that Javier Campopiano has been appointed to the newly created role of chief creative officer for Latin America and Multicultural USA....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Today sees the start of my favourite time of year: Wimbledon fortnight. And with Andy Murray defending his title and the intrigue surrounding his appointment of 2006 Ladies Champion, Amélie Mauresmo, there's a lot to be excited about. What does...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
According to the results of the 4th Annual Effie Effectiveness Index, Effie Worldwide has named the Omnicom Group's BBDO as the most effective agency network in the world. These results are determined by the performance of the world's major agency...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the 61st Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity draws to a close, Ogilvy & Mather head home with top honours, having been named 'Network of the Year' for the third consecutive year. This is the cherry on top of an incredibly successful week of Ogilvy...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
John Mescall has been named as the new global executive creative director at McCann's headquarters in New York. The move will see him relocated from McCann Australia, where he has served as executive creative director since October 2011. The move is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Soft drinks and shower gel. Heavy machinery and hats. A film franchise and manly cologne. At bluemarlin, we believe that all brands have the innate potential to stretch their identity into certain foreign categories. The right positioning and a...
Posted by: bluemarlin
Publicis Worldwide announced yesterday that they will be partnering with Google and magazine publisher Conde Nast to launch a new end-to-end premium marketing service called 'La Maison' (“The house” in English). The service is aimed at...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week I was asked to blog about the World Cup. I do not care for the World Cup. Not very much anyway. I hate those stupid flags that people stick in their car windows, reminding everyone of all the wasted excitement, hopes and dreams which the...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
In the first of a stream of new hires and appointments announced over the past week, London-based agency, AMV BBDO has named the creative team of Mike Crowe and Rob Messeter from adam&eveDDB as creative partners. Together, they will be running some...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Southeast Asian online gaming brand Garena plan to capitalise on the football mania created by the 2014 World Cup, hyping the free EA Sports multiplayer football game, FIFA Online 3 with the help of Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand. Garena was launched in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In much the same way as cinemas now use the lure of movies to sell popcorn at vast profit, so the World Cup can be seen as deploying football games as a lure to sell enormous quantities of advertising. Which is absolutely fine by me as I find...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
- RAPP wins combined media and creative brand account - Includes offline, online and PPC UK brand media and ATL creative London, 18th June 2014: Guide Dogs has appointed RAPP to handle the combined media and creative accounts for its new integrated...
Posted by: RAPP
Marketing communication agency, RPM, has been commissioned to develop a campaign to promote Cancer Research UK's ongoing partnership with Nivea Sun. The roaming campaign will be a part of the wider, 'thermally activated' media campaign, which Nivea...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, on the 2nd day of the annual Cannes Lions Festival, Ogilvy & Mather scored a staggering 34 wins. In total, Ogilvy won 4 Gold Lions, 11 Silver Lions, and 19 Bronze Lions, bringing the network's total up to 70 Lions so far at this year's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, I wrote a blog post entitled, Why on earth do I need a copywriter? I speak English and own a computer. As I'd hoped, the blog caught the attention of a lot of you - but not just copywriters, as it turned out. From designers to marketing...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Ever since it was re-branded as the 'Creativity Conference', opening the doors for more than just advertisers, The Cannes Lions (colloquially referred to as “The Academy Awards of the advertising world) has gone from strength to strength, year...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It may have taken a few months... but we have finished tackling one of the hardest subjects in the workplace, the paycheck. We have exposed the elephant in the room by asking tough questions, collecting data, and analysing opinions. Inside you will...
Posted by: Alexandra Schott
Nationwide, the American mutual insurance company, announced last week that it had selected Ogilvy & Mather New York to handle the creative advertising work for their new marketing agreement with Peyton Manning, the quarterback for the Denver...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A ground-breaking ceremony has been held for the Hankook Technodome, a state-of-the-art new research and development facility for one of the world’s leading tyre manufacturers. The new centre is located in Daejeon, at the heart of Asia’s...
Posted by: Foster + Partners
Saatchi & Saatchi London have utilised the skills of notorious internet prankster, Rahat, to launch a new integrated, multichannel campaign promoting the Toyota Aygo. The campaign is entitled, “Go Fun Yourself,” and is a Pan-European...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Grey Group announced yesterday that they have agreed to acquire a majority stake in the largest independent advertising agency in Peru, Circus Peru SA (known colloquially as simply “Circus”). The Grey Group is owned by holding company...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that TBWA has been appointed as the global strategic and creative agency partner for Sotheby's, the fine art auctions and private sales corporation based in New York. The agency's London office will be leading the account,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns