Big vote of confidence for W+K London as Portland HQ makes Neil Christie and...
It’s been something of an annus mirabilis for Wieden+Kennedy London as the recently high-flying agency has seen the departures of biggest account Nokia (with attendant ten per cent redundancies) and...
View ArticlePublicis joins the buy battle with Russia deal as WPP wraps up eighth...
Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy has been a bit slow out of the blocks in 2012 compared to great rival Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP but the French marcoms giant has broken its duck for the new year by...
View ArticleNow Reckitt Benckiser carves up emerging markets into ‘Lapac’ and ‘Rumea’
As one of many changes under new CEO Rakesh Kapoor (pictured) who’s also shifting control of the more mature European and North American businesses to a new HQ in Amsterdam, cutting back on traditional...
View ArticleRussian search giant Yandex targets western Europe
Russian search giant Yandex is taking the battle to its European rivals with a new office in Lucerne headed by Bernard Lukey, former head of Russian online store Ozon.ru. Yandex runs search sites plus...
View ArticleWhy is WPP buying in Vietnam? Is it the economy or a way to ease the company...
Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP is continuing its love affair with Vietnam (it’s been operating in the country for over 15 years, long before most of its marcoms rivals) by launching Burson-Marsteller Vietnam...
View ArticleUK poster boys panic over expensive Olympics sites
The imminent London Olympics were supposed to produce a boom time for the whole media sector: from the mighty WPP which anticipated heavy client spending down to the UK’s poster contractors and...
View ArticleCovario: all you need to know about online search!
Online’s share of the media market is going up in all markets, to 20 per cent and over in the US and UK for example. But search remains by far the biggest sector although there are important...
View ArticleWPP makes it 108 countries around the world as it buys stake in Myanmar’s...
It seems that we’re supposed to call Burma Myanmar these days – a nifty bit of rebranding for a country that was an international pariah a year or so ago. Anyway, where democracy (or some of it) leads...
View ArticleIt’s naming day for Kraft’s Mondelez today – just don’t try saying it in Russia
Why not? Apparently Mondelez (Kraft’s name for its new spun-off snacks company) sounds like the Russian word for oral sex. Which should trigger a few ideas from the fertile minds of creatives working...
View ArticleJCDecaux expands in Russia and eyes giant Moscow bus shelter contract
Russia under president Vladimir Putin may be a dangerous place for Pussy Riot band members but big companies from across the spectrum are crossing their fingers and legs and heading for what’s rapidly...
View ArticleWorrying times for the marcoms giants as growth judders to a halt in Brazil...
For years now it’s seemed like a one way bet: expand in the BRICS (the emerging markets of China, Brazil, India and Russia); go further afield to the likes of Indonesia and Vietnam and even, gulp,...
View ArticleNow Giorgio Armani steps boldly into the wonderful (and fashionable) world of...
A new-found friend from Germany sends me a print ad and a link to the the Giorgio Armani website which offers Gio’s diapers to rich Russians who, clearly, can’t thing of other ways of spending their...
View ArticleWieden+Kennedy rides to P&G’s rescue with winning Winter Olympics campaign
It’s the Winter Olympics in Sochi, in Russia, next month (often a recipe for disaster – remember when it didn’t snow north of Vancouver?) and this year the Games look likely to be even more fraught,...
View ArticleRussian energy giant Gazprom looking for UK agency
Here’s a job to tax even the most optimistic of agency bosses. Mega-sized Russian gas producer Gazprom (left) is looking for a UK agency, according to Campaign. Russia isn’t exactly flavour of the...
View ArticleFacebook pledges to clean up network – again
Here’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg outlining nine things the social network is going to do to prevent nasties invading its space: specifically some 3,000 Russia-originated anti-Clinton election ads it’s...
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