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Publicis Groupe has been trying to explain the whopping €1.4bn impairment charge it’s taken against its digital agencies now grouped in Publicis.Sapient. This forced the company into a 2016 loss of €527m. Vice-president Jean-Michel Bonamy (left) said: “The thing is, when we do the impairment test, we no longer do it at the level of.
In absence of full time employment, I’ve been working my tail off. If this sounds contradictory it is not. As any freelance writer will tell you, the hustle is as crucial as the creation. Unlike fat and maybe-happy FTE’s the freelancer must work to get work before he can work. Ah, the hustle. It’s like the fisherman who has to both catch fish and sell them.
Snap, Inc., the parent company of SnapChat, self-identifies as a camera company. This new “camera company” is about to unveil its initial public offering and raise billions of dollars in the process. It’s a topic we explored thoroughly on The Bean Cast this week. Snap reported that its messaging service had 158 million daily active […].
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On January 22, 2017, serial Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act plaintiffs, Craig Moskowitz and Craig Cunningham, filed a petition for rulemaking and declaratory rulings before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), requesting that the FCC issue a rule that, if passed, would eliminate the “prior express consent” standard for non-solicitation calls to cell phones using an autodialer or pre-recorded message.
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84 Lumber is a company with a heart. The Pennsylvania-based is also a company with their finger on the pulse. The story was initially rejected by Fox for being “too controversial for T.V.,” forcing the company to edit it and cut it down. Let’s see the piece in full frame now: Rob Schapiro, chief creative […]. The post 84 Lumber Opens The Door To Opportunity appeared first on AdPulp.
My interpretation of the title is: who is top of the people list who have had an impact on my working life. It is a big list of people and events, too many to include here, and it goes back a long way. I grew up in a Worcestershire backwater but I had the good.
Conor McNicholas is CEO of content marketing agency AllTogetherNow – a partner in The&Partnership. He was editor of music magazine NME in the guitar-boom of the Noughties and took the NME brand multi-platform, growing NME.com and launching NME Radio, NME TV and other live music, ticketing and merchandising arms. He went on to be editor.
Oh dear, just when you thought Publicis Groupe was turning the corner – some big recent media wins and the annointment of Arthur Sadoun as Maurice Levy’s successor – the car goes skidding off the road. The French-owned marcoms giant is being forced to write off €1.44bn (about £1.2bn) from the value of its digital.
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European luxury wagons are not just personal transporters to efficiently and safely get you to and from work—they’re $45,000 sleds that you can ride to freedom. Volvo’s agency, Forsman & Bodenfors, went deep into the archive for this Alan Watts speech: There is no use planning for a future which when you get to it […]. The post Consciousness Comes To Carvertising appeared first on AdPulp.
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On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David consider the announcement by P&G to launch a media agency pitch in some key European markets including U.K., Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Nordics and Ireland with media budgets across the region estimated at around $500m. All the major agency groups are likely to participate and this will be one.
Adam&eveDDB’s first foray into Super Bowl advertising, for Mars’ Skittles, seems to have been a resounding success. The understated ad (rare for the Super Bowl) came joint top with Mr Clean’s ‘Dreamer of Your Dreams’ in a facial recognition survey from emotion measurement technology company (phew!) Realeyes which tracked people’s facial expressions via 3,300 webcams.
The last two weeks have been an unfolding nightmare for London’s independent creative agencies and it goes on: now Whitbread-owned Costa has dumped recently-appointed indie agency 101 because it wants to run an international campaign and 101 doesn’t have a network. 101 recently made its debut for Costa will ‘never a dull cup.’ Recently we’ve.
On January 22, 2017, serial Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act plaintiffs, Craig Moskowitz and Craig Cunningham, filed a petition for rulemaking and declaratory rulings before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), requesting that the FCC issue a rule that, if passed, would eliminate the “prior express consent” standard for non-solicitation calls to cell phones using an autodialer or pre-recorded message.
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Well that didn’t take very long did it? A week after news broke that WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell had stitched up a deal with Walgreens Boots – to save them $100m in marketing costs it seems – the UK creative business, after 13 seemingly happy years at independent agency Mother, has moved to WPP’s.
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Breathalyzer accuracy is serious business. While the instructions may indicate “blow here,” that instruction does not apply to marketers of the device. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) drove this point home in a recent settlement with the marketer of an app-supported breathalyzer device that no doubt left the marketer feeling a bit hungover. The settlement also serves as a reminder that the FTC maintains broad unfairness authority which in this case applied to degradation of product perfor
90 per cent of advertising seems calendar driven these days so now there’s a tidal wave of Valentine’s Day ads, stunts, promotions. Does anybody really care that much about February 14? You sometimes think marketing departments live on a different planet. Anyway, today we’ve already had Pamela Anderson looking after business herself for Coco de.
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Australia’s biggest digital agency DT is being rebadged as AKQA, giving WPP’s flagship digital agency AKQA a big presence in Australia and New Zealand for the first time. DT was owned by holding company STW which was bought by WPP a few years ago. DT CEO Brian Vella (below with AKQA founder Ajaz Ahmed) will.
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London outfit Coco de Mer, purveyor of “designer lingerie, luxurious bondage and seductive sex toys” – an upmarket Ann Summers in other words – is celebrating Valentine’s Day (February 14 you muppet) with a new campaign featuring former Baywatch glamour puss Pamela Anderson. The spin, in this ad directed by photographer Rankin, is that Pammy’s.
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