Here’s a few items you may be interested in. File it all under, “we hear”.
— “More bad news from WPP’s Wunderman Group. Yesterday, David Sable, Wunderman CEO, called West Coast President, Niland Mortimer, with a short phone call that resulted in Mortimer’s termination. Yet another phone firing from the distinguished folks at WPP. Mortimer was on board less than eight months. Wunderman was part of the failed WPP pitch to HP’s TSG group which was maintained by Omnicom.”
— “PHD is losing Patrick McNew, the Director of the LMN (local media buying)”
— “Dentsu America has won a huge global assignment (and possibly the whole account)iin [sic] a creative shoot out vs a big red NY agency The client buys good work”
— “People are buzzing at donovan andrews joining tribal fusion. word is he is holding meetings with major adspenders [sic] all around the country and is very well connected. he was described to me as ‘the insider to insiders’… i would expect a major product launch or announcement or acquisition soon.”
Oh how fun.
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