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Coca-Cola bought its first 18% stake in Innocent in 2009. Four years later, in 2013, the soft drinks giant upped its ownership of the smoothie brand to 90%. Why was Coke so keen to spend hundreds of millions buying Innocent? We have a pretty good...
Posted by: bluemarlin
The other day, a friend asked me to proofread their covering letter for a job they were going for. And before you go all Stephen Fry on me and ask who the hell I am to proofread other people’s work when I end a sentence with a preposition,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
The Atlanta-based Creaxion, one of North America's leading marketing firms, announced recently that it had signed up SegPay for five more years; the longest, and perhaps most significant client contract in the agency's 16 year history. SegPay is one...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In another new ad for the iPhone 5s, Apple has decided to remind their users that they are more powerful than they think by encouraging them to “Dream” up ways in which they could be using their smartphones in their respective jobs. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Kevin Roberts, Saatchi & Saatchi's Lancaster-born global chief executive, is to be one of the hosts at this years 'Be Inspired Business Awards', Lancashire's leading business awards ceremony. Roberts will be one of the featured hosts at the event,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Digitas LBi Chicago, the digitally-focused agency, has created a new brand identity for the Chicago Park District's “Night Out In The Parks” program. The program involves a series of events happening in the evening all over the city with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Other than reckless and reluctant banks, what would you say is the biggest hindrance to small business, in the UK? High rents? Punitive rates? How about broadband? You would imagine the internet has been nothing but a boon to business, what with the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
London-based consumer goods giants Unilever has teamed up with US-based intermediary MediaLink in a formal, global digital agency review in an effort to (seemingly) completely revamp its global digital roster. Agencies who are currently on Unilever's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Phil Buehler has been named as the new executive vice president/ global director of strategic planning at Porter Novelli. In this role he will be leading the public relations agency's award-winning analytical team, who...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Ad Council, North America's largest PSA producer, announced yesterday at its 61st Annual Public Service Award Dinner, which is to be hosted by comedian and satirist Stephen Colbert, will be honouring FedEx chairman and CEO, Frederick W. Smith....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Holiday Inn seem to have been quite busy recently, not only launching a brand new digital campaign, but commissioning a film to tell the true story of a double-amputee who was helped on his road to recovery by the global hotel chain. This is not the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I'm going to let you into a secret. Not a massive one, like I know that Pop Idol was fixed back in 2002 and Gareth Gates should have beaten Will Young into second place. No, I'm talking about something really, really insignificant. My minimum word...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
To coincide with it's 40th anniversary, McDonald's UK is striving to move away from the traditional light hearted ads the fast-food brand is known for, instead focusing on the company's charitable contributions with their new campaign. The campaign...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The new Nike Free 5.0 has been billed by the athletics giant as “The most flexible shoe in history,” and have turned to the Uruguayan advertising agency, Publicis Impetu, in order to help them communicate this unique attribute through the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The health behaviour experts at Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide announced yesterday that its New Jersey office had made five promotions and made two new hires. Promotions Former account executive Libber Werner has been promoted to the role of senior...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Assembly announced yesterday that former M&C Saatchi CEO, Jeff Brooks, had joined them as the agency's chief commercial officer. The move, effective immediately, will see Brooks leading the forward-thinking, New York-based scaled media agency's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Even with Apple moving more and more of their ads in-house, and the rumour mill all but convinced that the tech giants will be getting shot of them altogether sooner rather than later, it seems that TBWA\Media Arts Lab still have a little creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Christopher Graves, the CEO of Ogilvy PR Global, has bagged the WPP Atticus Award for Public Relations and Public Affairs, his third Atticus Award, including the Atticus Grand Prix he won in 2012 for original published thinking in branding and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Top Fotolia contributor Siarhei Piatrosau, and his colleague Dmitri Serov, have a unique Fotolia portfolio, so we spoke to them as part of our ‘Unstock’ series. Siarhei and DmitriDmitri and I are both from Belarus. We started working...
Posted by: Fotolia
It was announced yesterday that Grey San Francisco has been chosen by the iControl Network, the Canadian company that specialises in providing connected home solutions, to be the first agency of record for 'Piper', the company's revolutionary...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that L&K Saatchi & Saatchi has been given the communication mandate for the re-launch of HSBC's 'Premier' offering in India. As one would expect given its name, HSBC Premier is a premium financial services product for the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ogilvy Public Relations announced yesterday that Jennifer Banovetz has been appointed as senior vice president and brand marketing group director of the integrated global communications firm, which is based in Los Angeles. Effective from the 4th of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Warc 100 was announced last week and BBDO Worldwide took the top spot by having the most campaigns on the list of any global agency network. The Warc 100 is an annual ranking of the best marketing campaign's in the world, with a campaign's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
HHGregg, the electronics and home appliances store, announced yesterday that it will be leaving Leo Burnett and Spark SMG to return to Zimmerman Advertising, which handled the brand's creative and media planning since 2007. The retail chain moved its...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Crown Partners, the electronic business services firm based in Dayton Ohio, has been acquired by the French multinational Publicis Groupe and will now be operating as a subsidiary of Razorfish Technology Platform Services, the international holding...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
'Grumpy Cat' (real name 'Tardar Sauce') is the owner of the face that has launched a thousand memes (and that would be something of a modest estimate), so it was only a matter of time before the advertising world got it's paws into her. The cat who...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles has been hired by the popular Californian lifestyle accessories brand, Nixon to develop a broader awareness of the brand. Nixon is best known its watches, but also sells light jackets, shirts, hats, bags, belts wallers and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Grey San Francisco, the West Coast arm of the advertising network belonging to the Grey Group, announced yesterday that The Sweetwater Music Hall has chosen them as their exclusive marketing partners. The Sweetwater Music Hall is a legendary Bay Area...
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
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
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
Leo Burnett is using real job seekers in a new campaign for Fifth Third Bank. The campaign aims to help people find work via the bank's reemployment program, a concept which evolved from their partnership with the national reemployment solutions...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
At last weeks 46th Annual Effie Awards, Ogilvy & Mather walked away with top honours for Unilever's “Winning Back Dove Love” campaign for Dove Real Beauty Sketches. It was revealed as the winner of the 'Grand Effie' (effectively the 'best...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ogilvy & Mather recently took home a full bounty of medals at this year's Asian Marketing Effectiveness and Strategy Awards (the AMES), with the agency winning Asia Pacific's Most Effective Agency Office of the Year and Media Strategy Agency of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The new campaign for Royal Mail MarketReach by Publicis Chemistry suggests that consumers want to use a combination of mail and email to communicate with them. The campaign is the first in a series of communications, which target new, former and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns