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The agency I admire most is Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Together with a handful of others, it has long been on my 'if I were a client, which would my agency be?' shortlist. Not just for its enviably loyal advertisers or the many campaigns that haunt the mind and touch the heart, nor even for its blistering record in effectiveness awards, but for the thoughtfulness and decency of its people, for its rock-solid integrity.
Thus, when I read that Kevin Brown was to rejoin the agency's ranks as its media champion, my reaction was: 'How typical, how smart - how BBH.'
If you sense that, having applauded the agency and Brown's move, I am about to deliver it a vicious blow to the back of the neck, you are wrong.
My respect for all concerned makes it impossible to bet against its success and anyway, it would be indescribably naff to rubbish something so carefully conceived.
I will say this, however. Kevin Brown must be careful how he hands down his 'engagement strategies' to media agencies. I'm sure he will, because this is now indisputably their turf too. I won't go over the changes of the past 20 years or so - they are familiar to us all - but media agencies have taken their planning upstream, do talk about engagement with consumers, are docking alongside the ...