It’s official then, British agencies are rubbish at TV – since 2008 and that...
Cannes isn’t the be-all and end-all of the creative world (much as it would like to be so) but the pathetic performance of UK creative agencies in 2011 is really quite staggering. From 275 entries in...
View ArticleIPA Creative challenge pulls in over 900 entries
948 people have entered the IPA/Metro Creative Pioneers Challenge, the nationwide search to offer 300 young people employment opportunities in the creative and digital media industries around the UK....
View ArticleUK government’s new ad agency ‘procurement’ system is a nightmare designed by...
The follies of the UK’s coalition government know no bounds and now this collection of muppets – who promised a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ when it came into power in 2010 – has produced a procurement...
View ArticleGPS ad agency jury hides behind gobbledygook
UK ad agencies and trade body the IPA are appealing against the Government Cabinet Office’s recent shortlist to pitch for nearly £300m of government ad business. The Government Procurement Service’s...
View ArticleHere’s what Wieden+Kennedy thinks about Campaign’s UK agency ‘school reports’
Forgot to buy the issue of Campaign with its ‘School Reports’ (sometimes questionable judgements of top UK agencies). Here’s what Wieden+Kennedy’s Neil Christie (left) thinks of them. Each year...
View ArticleWPP move with D&AD may help to end scandal of UK agency unpaid intern roles
I suppose congratulations to WPP are in order after it decided to offer paid internships at its leading London ad agencies and design companies as part of D&AD’s Young Blood initiative. But the...
View ArticleUK agencies muddle through (and Sir Martin Sorrell earns eight times more...
Kingston Smith has produced its annual survey of UK agencies’ financial performance (including PR agencies), which shows that the industry in the UK grew by 3.5 per cent to reach an income of £1.3bn...
View ArticleNABS tries to tackle modern day misery in adland
Is adland a more misery-inducing location than it used to be? Most people would probably say yes, if only because – for those who survived a few years – recollections tend to be the good bits. But...
View ArticleSouth African agency Clockwork launches in UK
Ex-Engine CMO Richard Dutton (below) and ex-Wunderman Thompson head of strategy Marcus Reynolds are heading up Clockwork UK, the first expansion of the South African agency outside its homeland....
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