Agencies Publicis London meeting to slash & burn staff By OnDownLow on May. 13, 2008 - 8:47 AM Publicis is reviewing the agency operations in London as its starts a consultation with the current staff that could lead to shitcanning some staff. It is expected to lead to at least ten people will get the axe if it comes down t ...
We Hear? The heave-ho at Berlin Cameron… By OnDownLow on May. 12, 2008 - 2:26 PM Apparently the President of Berlin Cameron, William J. (Bill) Grogan Jr, was shown the door a week ago — we’ll see where we get with the PR hack for the back story. Of course it would be a lot easier if they listed som ...
Agencies John Wren is raking in the cheddar… By OnDownLow on May. 12, 2008 - 2:18 PM John Wren, the Omnicom chief executive, was the mostly highly paid marketing services executive in 2007, taking home $10.4m for the year. Although the amount he was paid dropped from $13.2m in 2006, Wren topped the table ahead of ...
Agencies You call that a knife?….This is a knife! By OnDownLow on May. 8, 2008 - 8:42 AM Nothing like pulling out the classic Crocodile Dundee lines to announce that Tourism Australia has “cut” the agencies competing for the global account down to two finalists. Saatchi and Saatchi to battle it out with DD ...
Agencies Element 9 Update By OnDownLow on May. 8, 2008 - 8:17 AM Aside from the daily question from the Anon tip box that asks us (every single day) what is going on with Element 79 out of Chicago — we hear that tomorrow is the lay-off day for all those involved in the recent deluge of lo ...
Agencies AKQA goes Hollywood… By OnDownLow on May. 7, 2008 - 12:48 PM Ok…not exactly — but they have launched a new division — aptly named “AKQA Film”, to create, distribute and sponsor digital programming and content. I’ll be run by Emily Bull, the Head of Produc ...
Agencies Capital One changes dance partners By OnDownLow on May. 7, 2008 - 11:06 AM Capital One in the UK has changed agencies for its advertising account — dropping one Omnicom agency (DDB London) for another one (AMV BBDO) (ed note: isn’t it a little like dropping one girl to take up with her sister ...
Brands And then there were four…. By OnDownLow on May. 6, 2008 - 10:00 AM Ok…so it is for the creative portion of the Mitsubshi business — which given previous comments by readers (*cough cough* when you guys did comment on the site) is either a completely soul-sucking account — or it ...
Agencies Grey taps a ECD of digital By OnDownLow on May. 6, 2008 - 9:54 AM Well Grey has always sucked at the digital aspects of this world we call “advertising” — but they have a new ECD going forward…probably so they can continue to suck going forward. The unlucky bastard thrust ...
Agencies DDB Seattle trims 20… By OnDownLow on May. 5, 2008 - 8:20 AM We got a tip late last week that mentioned that DDB Seattle had just let 20 more staffers go at the time. Apparently it is the fourth or fifth layoff of staff in a series over the past few months as business dwindles int he region ...