Campaign articles from April 2007

Campaign archives from April 2007

Campaign fights to protect ad freedom.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Campaign is putting its weight behind a major industry initiative aimed at ending the relentless attacks on advertising freedoms in Britain. With the backing of the Advertising Association, the IPA and ISBA, the magazine has launched an...

Fallon loses dollars 600m CitiBank business.(Fallon Worldwide)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... CitiBank has moved its dollars 600 million global corporate branding account out of Fallon and into its sister network Publicis. The financial services company was Fallon's largest account, and the departure is a blow to the network's...

Andrew Fraser quits DraftFCB for Rapier.(Andrew Fraser and Bill Griffin appointed)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Rapier has hired DraftFCB's executive creative director, Andrew Fraser, and Kiss FM's ex-managing director Bill Griffin to become its executive creative director and strategy director respectively. The two replace the creative director,...

BP seeks direct agency to promote green credentials.
April 6, 2007... BP is setting out to reinforce its green credentials and is looking for a direct marketing agency to handle the initiative. The decision poses a threat to Ogilvy's eight-year grip on the consolidated business. The pitch, for BP's social...

Sorrell finally pulls plug on United.(Grey London appoints Jim Kelly, Robert Campbell and Richard Huntington)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Beleaguered London office closes as accounts and some staff are absorbed by sisterWPP agency Grey. The WPP chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell, has thrown in the towel on his United network's ailing London office and is closing the agency....

J&J puts pounds 1.5bn ad account into review.
April 6, 2007... Johnson & Johnson, whose brands range from Benylin to Band-Aid, has put its pounds 1.5 billion global media and planning account into review. All of its roster shops, which include Interpublic's Universal McCann and Initiative, Omnicom's...

Doubts over ITV football deal.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Despite the assertions from the ITV executive chairman, Michael Grade, that the broadcaster has paid the 'right price' for live rights to FA Cup and England matches, some media agencies have expressed doubts that it will make a return on the...

Euro RSCG dumped from Volvo ad pitch.(Volvo Car Corp.)(Euro RSCG Worldwide Inc.)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Euro RSCG has lost the global pounds 76 million advertising task for Ford's Volvo division, after failing to make it to the final round of the global review. The Amsterdam agency 180 was also eliminated. The news leaves Fallon Worldwide in...

OMD UK scoops Royal Mail brief.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... OMD victorious following lengthy pitch process as Carat, the ten-year incumbent, loses pounds 18m account. Royal Mail has appointed OMD UK and its sister agency WWAV Rapp Collins Media to handle its pounds 18 million media planning and...

Lennox and Nunn quit to launch start-up.(Amy Lennox)(Phil Nunn)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The OMD Digital chief, Amy Lennox, and its head of direct response, Phil Nunn, are leaving the agency in order to launch a start-up. The news comes as OMD is about to take on the Royal Mail brief, which will demand digital and direct...

Advertisers in talks over Joost launch.
April 6, 2007... Joost, the internet TV service set to launch in May, is finalising details of its packages to advertisers, and is in talks with several global brands. It is offering exclusive access to 20 advertisers for the first three months of the...

Alderson named as DM Authority chief.(Matti Alderson appointed at Direct Marketing Association)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The Direct Marketing Authority, the industry's independent regulatory body, has named Matti Alderson as its new chairman. A former director-general of the Advertising Standards Authority, Alderson replaces John Bridgeman, who has stepped...

Blow for Publicis as Fallon scoops Dairy Milk project.(Cadbury Schweppes PLC)(Fallon London)(Publicis London)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Cadbury has briefed Fallon to create a new campaign for its Dairy Milk brand, in a move that sees Publicis London's grip on the pounds 14 million UK Cadbury account weaken. Fallon's Dairy Milk campaign, which is understood to include TV,...

Shops to compete for Royal Mint brief.(Royal Mint Trading Fund)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The Royal Mint is approaching top-ten agencies to find a partner to handle its pounds 2 million creative account. The company sent out a tender notice last week, which agencies must respond to by 27 April. The Royal Mint will then put...

Shirt retailer kicks off pounds 6m DM review.(Charles Tyrwhitt)(direct marketing)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Charles Tyrwhitt, the mail-order shirt company, is reviewing its direct marketing account, which is backed by a pounds 6 million spend. The luxury shirt retailer, a heavy user of catalogues and inserts in newspapers and magazines, is...

TBWA launches search for Bainsfair replacement.(Paul Bainsfair leaves TBWA/London)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Keith Smith, the international president of TBWA, has kicked off a search for a new European chairman, following Paul Bainsfair's resignation on Friday. Smith denied rumours that headhunters had already been briefed, and said: 'Paul made...

M2M to handle Links of London brief.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Links of London, the upmarket UK jeweller, has appointed the OMD-owned agency M2M to handle its media planning and buying. The appointment of the agency, which followed a pitch against three other agencies, coincides with ambitious...

Car-makers lambasted for over-promotion of gas-guzzlers.(motor industry to spend more on promoting environment friendly cars)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Car manufacturers have come under fire for spending most of their ad budgets on gas-guzzling vehicles. Friends of the Earth claims the motor industry is not promoting 'greener' cars, despite pressure to reduce carbon emissions to aid the...

BMB in DM move by winning First Choice.(Beattie McGuinness Bungay )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Beattie McGuinness Bungay is extending its offering by moving into direct marketing. The agency has just secured the pounds 2 million DM account for the holiday company First Choice. BMB already handles above-the-line duties. This is...

Carlson Marketing signs new MD.(John Hiney appointed)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... John Hiney, the former managing director of Harrison Troughton Wunderman, has been appointed as the managing director of Carlson Marketing UK. In November last year, both Hiney and the joint managing director, Suzanne Partridge, lost their...

Casio hires McCann as UK creative shop.(Casio Electronics)(McCann Erickson Birmingham)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Casio Electronics has hired McCann Erickson Birmingham as its UK creative agency after a five-way pitch against undisclosed agencies. The incumbent, the Manchester-based Cheethambell JWT, has held the business since 2005. It created the...

My Agency scoops Grant's whisky task.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... My Agency, which was founded two years ago by Luke White and Nick Wright, has won the global advertising brief for the scotch whisky brand Grant's. The agency picked up the business after a four-way pitch against three unknown shops. ...

The World: San Francisco - Goodby scoops dollars 1.2bn Sprint Nextel account.(Goodby, Silverstein and Partners)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Sprint Nextel, the third-largest mobile provider in the US, has hired Goodby, Silverstein & Partners to handle its dollars 1.2 billion assignment. The appointment comes as major mobile companies struggle to differentiate their offerings in...

The World: New York - Sacked boss slams Wal-Mart 'smear campaign'.(Julie Roehm)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Julie Roehm, the former Wal-Mart marketing chief at the centre of a row that led to the supermarket giant relieving DraftFCB of its dollars 570 million account after just two months, has accused the company of running a 'smear campaign' against...

The World: New York - Agencies to pitch for dollars 780m Sears media brief.(Sears, Roebuck and Co.)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Sears, the US retailing giant, has called a review of its dollars 780 million media buying and planning account, citing a need to 'improve efficiency and effectiveness'. The review includes the media assignments for both Sears Roebuck and...

The World: New York - Y&R hires Caplan to boost new-business prospects.(Young & Rubicam Brands appoints Mitch Caplan)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Young & Rubicam has hired the Kaplan Thaler Group's Mitch Caplan as its chief marketing officer in charge of new-business development for North America. He replaces Sally Kennedy, who left after 20 months in the job. Caplan spent more than...

The World: Prague - Lagardere buys into Slovakian radio station Okey.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The French media group Lagardere has established a presence in Slovakia by taking a minority stake in the music radio station Okey. It has also launched its sales house, Regie Radio Music, into the country. Regie will not only sell ad space...

The World: Washington - Study criticises proliferation of junk-food ads.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... US children are being force-fed a diet of TV ads for sweets, snacks and fast food, which are crowding out spots for healthy products, according to a new study. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that children aged between eight and 12...

The World: Washington - Univision fined as FCC backs BMP acquisition.(Univision Communications Inc.)(Broadcasting Media Partners)(Federal Communications Commission)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The Federal Communications Commission has approved a dollars 12 billion deal to take Univision private. But only after the Spanish media giant agreed to pay dollars 24 million to settle charges that its stations aired soap operas as children's...

The World: New York - Martin lands senior management role at DraftFCB.(Terry Martin appointed )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... DraftFCB New York is beefing up its management frontline with the appointment of Terry Martin as its senior vice-president and director of business development. His role will be to identify and develop organic growth and new-business...

The World: Milan - La Gazzetta dello Sport still most popular Italian daily.(Survey)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... There are currently 22.5 million daily newspaper readers in Italy, according to new figures. According to the Audipress survey, the sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport saw its readership fall by 1.9 per cent but, with more than 3.6...

The World: Hong Kong - Universal McCann swoops for digital expert Toy.(Adrian Toy appointed)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Universal McCann has hired Adrian Toy as its regional interactive director for Asia-Pacific, as part of efforts to build its digital media capabilities across the region. Toy, a former regional head of interactive marketing at Johnson &...

The Work: New Campaigns - UK.(Dare Digital to create campaign for Vodafone Group PLC)(M&C Saatchi London to create campaign for GlaxoSmithKline PLC)(Play Inc. and M&C Saatchi London teams up to create campaign for Royal Bank of Scotland PLC)
April 6, 2007... ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR - VODAFONE - CHASE YOUR DREAMS CREDITS Project: Chase your dreams Client: Kay Hoffmann, head of global advertising and innovations, Vodafone Brief: Demonstrate how the team and drivers have made the most of their...

The Work: New Campaigns - The world.(Mediaedge:cia to create a campaign for Molson Inc.)(KesselsKramer to create a campaign for Diageo PLC)(DDB Belgium to create a campaign for Volkswagen AG)
April 6, 2007... MOLSON CANADIAN - CURVED STICK - CANADA CREDITS Project: Curved stick Clients: Michael Shekter, brand director; Stephanie Rasminsky, brand manager, Molson Canadian Brief: Reinforce Molson's association with watching ice hockey...

Between the Lines: United fails to bounce back.(United London )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... It will be scant consolation to the 30 or so United London staff about to lose their jobs, but the agency's closure was the kindest end, given its recent miserable history (page 1). WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell decided that United London, whose...

Between the Lines: Start-up's direct approach.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The departure of Phil Nunn and Amy Lennox hasn't come at a good time for OMD, coinciding with it landing the Royal Mail account, a heavily direct and digital-focused piece of business (page 2). However, it will be interesting to see if...

New-Business Rankings: 5 April 2007.(Statistical table)(Company rankings)
April 6, 2007... Rank Rank Agency/ Total Total Net Wins this last Last three wins billings billings billings week week gained lost gained ...

Hotline: Publicis Groupe picks up P&G account.(Procter & Gamble Co.)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Publicis Groupe has picked up Procter & Gamble's global Oral B account. The news follows a pitch against Omnicom, the parent of the incumbent, BBDO. Publicis, Digitas, Arc, Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom MediaVest will benefit from the decision

Hotline: Philips Electronics retains Carat.(Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.)(Carat Espace)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Philips Electronics has retained Carat as the media planning and buying agency on its dollars 600 million global account. Carat kept the business in a final head-to-head battle against WPP's Mediaedge:cia

Hotline: Russell Hopson has been promoted.
April 6, 2007... Russell Hopson, the former account director on the News International business at Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, has been promoted to deputy managing director

Hotline: Farah Ramzan Golant appointed to BBDO Worldwide board.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Farah Ramzan Golant has been appointed to the BBDO Worldwide board Andrew Robertson, the president and chief executive of BBDO Worldwide, said: 'She has led the agency successfully through a period of significant change, introducing new...

Hotline: Sky confirms appointment of Andy Jonesco.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Sky has confirmed that it has appointed Andy Jonesco to the new role of managing director of its Online Business Unit. Jonesco, who joins from AOL, will report to Mike Darcey, Sky's chief operating officer. Paul Wright, the former head of...

Hotline: Google continues its move into selling offline media.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Google is continuing its move into selling offline media after signing a deal with the US satellite broadcaster EchoStar. Google will provide an automated system for buying, selling, delivering and measuring TV ads across EchoStar's 125...

Hotline: Agency Republic poaches Alistair Campbell.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Agency Republic has poached Alistair Campbell, a creative director from St Luke's, as its new head of copy. Phil Wilce also joins from AKQA in the role of senior copywriter

Hotline: Emap Consumer Media appoints Jonathan Turpinto.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Emap Consumer Media has appointed Jonathan Turpinto to the new role of digital development director for radio. Turpinto will develop the radio's digital strategy alongside Dee Ford, the group managing director of Emap Radio, and Travis Baxter,...

Hotline: Canary Wharf awards exclusive rights to thelondonpaper.
April 6, 2007... Canary Wharf has awarded exclusive rights to distribute an afternoon newspaper to thelondonpaper. More than 90,000 people are employed on the Canary Wharf estate

Hotline: Nabs appeals to people to take part in survey.
April 6, 2007... Nabs, the industry charity, is appealing to people to take part in a survey aimed at finding out how they feel about their work and what they think about the industry's future. The survey can be found at http://ebox. survey.eso1.co.uk/nabs

Media Forum: Are free titles the way forward?
April 6, 2007... Will more free magazines follow Sport into the men's market, Alasdair Reid asks. At first glance, Monkey and Sport don't seem to have much in common Except, obviously, for the fact that they're both targeted at a young male audience. And...

Media: Chatter.
April 6, 2007... 'Everyone has put in a tremendous effort in producing these early editions and I am extremely proud of all of their efforts.' - Mike Ironside, So London Publishing's managing director, after the 'luxury' magazine closed after just three issues...

Media: RadioCentre agrees deal with PPL.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The RadioCentre, the UK commercial radio trade body, has agreed a deal with PPL, which licenses music on behalf of 3,500 record companies, to allow recorded music to be used in internet downloads of radio shows The deal will allow radio...

Media: Ribena Really Light to sponsor Grease is the Word.(contracts)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Ribena Really Light is to sponsor the new ITV series Grease is the Word, which airs from 7 April. The GlaxoSmithKline brand will also sponsor the spin-off show, Greased Lightnin', on ITV2. The deal was negotiated by MediaCom's sponsorship...

Media: Trinity Mirror's chief executive's pay package.(Trinity Mirror Digital Media Ltd.)(Sly Bailey)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The Trinity Mirror chief executive, Sly Bailey, received a pay package of pounds 1.47 million last year, according to the company's annual report. Her salary of close to pounds 700,000 and pounds 755,000-worth of bonuses was almost 50 per cent...

Media: Audit Bureau announces publishing of data on set date.(Audit Bureau of Circulations )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The Audit Bureau of Circulations has announced that it will publish electronic circulation data for national newspapers on a set date each month. Previously, data for online editions of newspapers has been released as and when each newspaper's...

Media: Disney Channel and Sky work with Odeon Kids Club.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC contracts)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Disney Channel and Sky are working with Odeon Kids Club on a six-month sponsorship deal linked to the success of High School Musical Fans of the musical film will send in ideas for a High School Musical music video and the best will be filmed...

Media: Hachette Filipacchi hires editor for Elle website.(Melissa Dick appointment)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Hachette Filipacchi has hired Melissa Dick as the editor of its recently launched Elle website. Dick was previously the fashion editor of Handbag.com and will report to Kat Vitou, the head of business development and operations

Media: Reader's Digest links with Classic Gold.(partnerships)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Reader's Digest is linking with the national radio station Classic Gold to launch a joint music promotion. The activity will offer listeners and readers the chance to win Reader's Digest music CDs and pounds 10,000 cash in a prize draw....

Media: LBC 97.3 signs deal with Alpro.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... LBC 97.3 has signed a deal with Alpro that will see the soya-food brand sponsoring its daily lifestyle show, hosted by Jim Davis. The sponsorship of the show, which is broadcast at 1pm each weekday, will run for three months

Media: Egmont Magazines redesigns magazine.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Egmont Magazines has redesigned its Disney & Me magazine. The title, which goes on sale on 11 April, will retail at pounds 1.99 and will feature a new section called Disney Workbook, which comprises 16 pages of Disney-themed educational...

Media: IPC tx increases cover prices of titles.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... IPC tx has increased the cover prices of its What's on TV and TV Easy titles. What's on TV's cover price will rise by 1p to 43p, with TV Easy's increasing by 2p to 42p. IPC estimated that the changes would generate an extra pounds 1 million in...

Media: Orange signs deal with the BBC.(British Broadcasting Corp. contracts)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Orange has signed a deal with the BBC, which will see BBC1, BBC3 and BBC News 24 run on Orange's mobile TV service. Subscribers to Orange TV will also be able to listen to eight BBC radio stations

Media: Doordarshan launches range of channels on Sky platform.(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Doordarshan, the state broadcaster of India, is launching a range of channels on the Sky platform. The two free-to-air channels, DD India and DD News, will launch on 16 April

Media Headliner: 'There's no chance of Channel 4 playing it safe'.(Channel 4 Television Co.)
April 6, 2007... Channel 4's Kevin Lygo is in bullish mood, maintaining that the broadcaster will continue to take risks, Alasdair Reid writes. We encounter Kevin Lygo in an irrepressibly buoyant mood. Put it to him that these haven't exactly been the...

Media Lifeline: Richard Eyre.
April 6, 2007... With spells at BBH, GCap and ITV, Richard Eyre has become one of media's brightest guns for hire. 1986: Having existed since its launch in 1982 as a creative-only hotshop, Bartle Bogle Hegarty decides to set up its own media department. It...

Media Perspective: End of an era as OMD observes the break-up of the odd couple.(Callaway)(Manning Gottlieb OMD)
April 6, 2007... Callaway, in a campaign by Manning Gottlieb OMD, is asking the Pringle-jumpered brigade to 'help shape the future of golf'. Nick Manning, the agency's founder, may have more time than most to contribute. This week, he officially leaves...

Media: All about ... Online advertising revenues.(Financial report)
April 6, 2007... Will adspend continue to rocket in 2007 and beyond? There has been no avoiding the juggernaut of online as it has gained market share over the past few years. The sector's momentum continued in 2006, with online advertising spend breaking...

Media: Things we like.
April 6, 2007... GQ STYLE GQ's fashion spin-off appears to be going from strength to strength if its fourth issue, the spring/summer edition, is anything to go by. The cover, with its blend of bright red and cut-out black- and-white photography, looks...

Media: Double Standards - 'Sponsorship is becoming more sophisticated'.(Jeremy Clark, managing director of MEC Sponsorship)(Interview)
April 6, 2007... Two heads of sponsorship on how clients are becoming more savvy about the business, what makes a good deal, and the travel perks of the job. JEREMY CLARK - managing director, MEC Sponsorship, Europe, Middle East and Africa - What does...

Media: Strategy Analysis - Loss of licence shocks, not loss of life shocks.
April 6, 2007... Client: Transport for London Brief: Reduce the number of deaths and injuries on London's roads by 40 per cent by 2010 Target audience: 17- to 25-year-old men in London AGENCIES Media: Mediaedge:cia Creative: M&C Saatchi Events...

Media: Russell Davies.(advertising agencies)(Viewpoint essay)
April 6, 2007... If a group of alien anthropologists arrived from a distant planet and started to study advertising agencies, what do you think they'd conclude about our purpose? I suspect they'd conclude that agencies are in the business of putting bits...

The World: India proves a magnet for big-name publishers.
April 6, 2007... The country's political, cultural and economic climate is attracting increasing international investment. When Liz Hurley graced the cover of the first Indian edition of Hello! magazine in mid-March following her lavish marriage...

The World: Insider's view - US.(scope of emotional experiences in brand marketing)
April 6, 2007... Brands that appeal to consumers by creating emotional experiences will gain the higher ground in a hypercompetitive market, Paul Price writes. Brands are a bundle of experiences. The more emotionally engaging your brand experience, the...

Close-Up: Live Issue - How ads are helping to win the gaming battle.
April 6, 2007... PlayStation 3 celebrated a successful launch weekend, but did its ad campaign make any difference, James Hamilton asks. In the avalanche of negative headlines surrounding the European launch of Sony's next-generation PlayStation 3 console,...

Close-Up: Live Issue - Was the ASA right to ban Trident ads?(Advertising Standards Authority )
April 6, 2007... Has the chewing-gum brand shot itself in the foot with its Caribbean-themed ad, John Tylee asks. We'll probably never know for sure whether those behind the Trident chewing-gum campaign, ordered off-air by advertising watchdogs after a...

Close-Up: 24 hours with ... Paul Silburn, Freelance creative person.
April 6, 2007... Name: Paul Silburn Job: Freelance creative person Professional mission: To work with Barry Scott of Cillit Bang Personal mantra: Unless you enter the tiger's den, you cannot take the cubs 6.01am Up. Wet wipes. Cream. Nappy. Cuddles....

Editorial: Cameron must not bow to lobby group pressure.
April 6, 2007... One thing that the inquiry being established by the Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, into the commercialisation of childhood won't be short of is people telling it what its opinion should be. You can see the voluminous files being...

Editorial: Dirt remains 'undished' as Sorrell settles.(cases on Martin Sorrell)(Editorial)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... So Sir Martin Sorrell has agreed to accept pounds 150,000 (which amounts to no more than petty cash for the WPP boss) to settle the libel action against two of his ex-senior managers. It was a racy case while it lasted, with some spicy...

Opinion: Perspective - It's in advertising's interest to heed call to Action.(Paul Bainsfair to resign from TBWA Advertising Inc.)
April 6, 2007... Well, we would say that, wouldn't we? That advertising should be protected from further infringements on its freedom (page 20). Of course we would say that. Not just because as a magazine representing the communications industry it's our...

Opinion: On the Campaign Couch ... with JB.
April 6, 2007... Q: A rugby-mad marketing director writes: My agency has invited me on an all-expenses-paid trip to the Rugby World Cup in September. However, our company is realigning its services at the moment and there is a high likelihood that we won't be...

Diary: On the QT ..(on the quiet)
April 6, 2007... So long to So London. The operation has sunk quicker than the Titanic. When Mike Ironside, the former commercial director of The Mail on Sunday, launched his project, and promised 'shameless luxury', he can't have thought that within 90...

Diary: Counter-revolutionaries take up virtual arms against Profero's ask microsite.(forum guests upset with unsubtle branding by Ask.com Internet Ltd.)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Although clever ideas and innovative creative are obviously a good thing for the industry, it seems to us that agencies sometimes need reminding who is most important - the consumer. And in the age of the web forum, it can be crucial to an...

Diary: Humphreys gets huffy with adman contestant.(questioning of Adam Kirby by John Humphreys)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Despite the pitching process being a strenuous nerve-wracking business, often fraught with the stark reality of failure, embarrassment and derision by peers and possible paymasters, at least it's confined to a small number of people. For a...

Diary: OMD should reopen as a sanatorium for media.(injuries and diseases cripple OMD Europe management)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... They're dropping like flies over at OMD. While its business is in good shape, the same can't be said for many of its most senior people, with its Seymour Mews HQ resembling an accident and emergency department rather than a media agency. ...

Diary: Pick of the week - Wieden & Kennedy/Lurpak.
April 6, 2007... Kunal Dutta is enchanted with the new Lurpak campaign from Wieden & Kennedy: 'How better to earn the respect of foodies than through stunning photography and delicate post-production touches that bring every touch, smell and dribble of...

Diary: Turkey of the week - Bartle Bogle Hegarty/Lynx.
April 6, 2007... Noel Bussey is thoroughly disappointed, and somewhat embarrassed, by the latest offering for Lynx from Bartle Bogle Hegarty: 'Compared with what has gone before, I can't believe this set of ads actually got made. There are a number of...