Jeremy Lee, associate editor
JEREMY LEE ON ADVERTISING
Shirking tax and pats on backs can stain any brand
As exercises in cynical media manipulation go, the announcement that Channel 4 had organised a long-term tie-up with Cancer Research UK seemed to be among the most brazen.
The best a brand can get? Well, Grey's having a go
Another week passes and another feather makes an appearance on Grey London's plumed titfer. Gillette's worldwide advertising business was shifted out of BBDO and into the Grey network after a pitch played out on a global stage.
Upwardly mobile Macdonald shows Teflon qualities
The departure of the McCann London chief executive, Chris Macdonald, from these shores is a curious one: last Wednesday, he was in reassuringly familiar form strutting around the IPA Members Lunch, occasionally interrupting his glad-handing to pus...
Austerity is biting beyond those living on £53 a week
The political class spectacularly failed to cover itself in glory last week after trying to turn the appalling deaths of six children at the hands of the vile Mick Philpott into something that should be viewed along the narrow divide of party lines. ...
It's time dull O&M loosened the tie and grew a beard
Ogilvy & Mather seemed to pre-empt our School Report last week. In the same issue that we suggested a period of management stability at the agency wouldn't go amiss, the stars aligned and the news that the relatively unknown Cheryl Giovannoni would t...
Scandal of some great agencies ignored by Govt
For the Cabinet Office to conjure up a new agency - "Abbot Mead Vickers DDB" - in the list of shops to make it on to the Government's creative roster marked just another cock-up in the whole sorry and muddle-strewn process.
A military campaign that's well worth embarking on
Ploughing through agency submissions for the Campaign School Reports (out next month), the issue of trust is played out in its own little way.
The naked truth is that it's not easy reliving the past
The departure of the likeable and clever (if modest) Brad Fairhead from Hypernaked provides yet another "key date" on the timeline of its already complicated company history.
If RKCR isn't careful, it won't just be Toby Talbot going south
Back in August last year, Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y R s executive creative director, Toby Talbot, noted that the "green shoots of change" and "can-do spirit" pervading NW1 reminded him of being back in New Zealand. Sadly, these platitudes didn...
ITV's resurgence should give us all cause for optimism
The combined weight of the ITV sales team almost caused the stage to buckle as they piled up to prise their gong for TV Sales Team of the Year from Alex James at the Campaign Media Awards. Their cause for celebration was understandable and it sho...
After the theatrics, it's apt that Lace is bound for the opera
No-one can accuse Garry Lace of having lost his ability to provide us all with a surprise. While rumours of apparent discord between him and Robert Campbell have been circulating for some time and led many to conclude he d be off (most notably in Mar...
Jeremy Lee: What exactly is the root cause of Arena Media's brain drain?
For an agency that was born on the same tide as PHD and Manning Gottlieb OMD, Arena Media - formerly known as Booth Lockett Makin - has had a slightly different route to shore.
Jeremy Lee: Can 4Creative boost its output with hiring of Bovill and Allison?
To those tired of the industry's obsession with youth, the description of Chris Bovill and John Allison, who have just joined 4Creative as its joint heads, as "wunderkinds" by their new boss will have provided some cheer.
Jeremy Lee: There are sure signs of maturity from the meerkat agency
Following a week when the career prospects of two media agency employees became the subject of such fevered speculation, the peripatetic and mercurial Vodafone marketer Clare Sheikh helped draw a little of the pus from the sorry and poisonous affair ...
Jeremy Lee: No benefits for Iris after another storm in a Twitter teacup
Leo Burnett and Iris have found themselves in the eye of social media-fuelled shitstorms over the past couple of weeks.
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