Raunchy Rhian stars for JWT London anti-cancer campaign
And a damn fine job ‘lingerie’ model Rhian Sugden makes of hosting JWT London’s Male Cancer Awareness Campaign, producing some wholly unexpected goodies from her knickers. Ms Sugden clearly has a...
View ArticleShock for JWT London as CEO Guy Hayward quits for Havas’ BETC
JWT in London has had more bosses than you can shake a stick at in recent years and now the latest, Guy Hayward, who joined from 180 Amsterdam which he co-founded in 1998, is leaving after just two...
View ArticleWPP’s lawyers on ‘gardening leave’ alert as Collins and Exon quit RKCR/Y&R to...
This morning we learned that Guy Hayward was quitting as CEO of JWT London and this afternoon we learned that RKCR/Y&R CEO Richard Exon (left) and ECD Damon Collins were quitting to form their own...
View ArticleWill BETC’s Canal+ ‘Bear’ creation make the would-be agency network famous?
Well here it is, BETC Paris’ ‘Bear’ ad for French broadcaster Canal+. This has got the creative community all-a-Twitter, but is it any good? Strict types in Cincinnati (Procter & Gamble HQ) and...
View ArticleAgency pitches are certainly changing – now JWT teams with Capita to win UK...
It doesn’t seem that long ago that new business pitches were prepared the night before, often by dragging a reluctant creative team out of the pub. There would, of course, be a big research document...
View ArticleJWT London invests in Levi Roots campaign
It’s interesting that JWT London has taken on local chef Levi Roots (left) and his Reggae Reggae Sauce. Roots (aka Keith Valentine Graham) got his big break when he attracted some money from the BBC’s...
View ArticleDebenhams and JWT go for low-key fabulousness
It’s that time of year again and UK high street retailer Debenhams is one of the first off the mark with this opus from JWT London. We’re all waiting to see what Adam&Eve/DDB comes up with for John...
View ArticleIs this campaign the right way to persuade TA recruits to take the Queen’s...
Any ad for an army is bound to head into a communications war zone if the army in question is involved in a shooting conflict. Which the British army in Afghanistan is, of course. This is a new ad for...
View ArticleJWT’s controversial spin on cops and robbers for KitKat
The police have a few image problems in the UK – one being that, for many people, it’s hard to tell the difference between them and the villains they’re supposed to protect us from (OK, the uniforms)....
View ArticleIs HSBC talking to itself in new JWT campaign?
Banks, banks…what are we going to do with them? Among the many infractions they’ve been pulled up for recently is bank staff being incentivised to sell customers something, anything, whether they need...
View ArticleJWT and Jonathan Glazer kick everyone’s ass for Canon
This is fun: Canon is running a campaign, ‘Come and See,’ by JWT London majoring on Canon’s role in visual ‘storytelling’ (without which no campaign is complete these days). Directed and produced by...
View ArticleDebenhams and JWT confounded by Christmas
Who’d be a British retailer in 2014. As the unseasonal sun beats down on London we have Debenhams (not a bad shop at all) out of the Christmas traps with this effort from JWT, ‘Found It.’ There’s a bit...
View ArticleCanon and JWT offer Glazer-style view of urban deer
Canon has unveiled another spot in its ‘Come and See’ campaign by celebrated film director Jonathan Glazer and JWT London, this time featuring the surprising antics of some urban deer. What else is out...
View ArticleDoes JWT’s new HSBC Advance campaign bridge the gap between big company image...
We hesitate to make predictions – although that doesn’t stop us – but one certainty is that 2015 will see yet more ads from the world’s biggest companies telling us in gory emotional detail how and why...
View ArticleJWT puts part-time soldiers into a noisy front line
Dunno who’s in charge of UK armed services recruitment these days but it looks as though Brigadier ‘Buffy’ Missthepointcompletely has been put out to grass. A couple of weeks ago we had a decent Royal...
View ArticleJWT London introduces new partner structure
Much shuffling of the deck chairs in London’s adland this week (just because you shuffle the deck chairs it doesn’t mean the ship is sinking necessarily). JWT London has a new management structure...
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More gender problems hit JWT London
Campaign’s Jeremy Lee tells an extraordinary tale of a group of “white straight British male creatives” who are accusing JWT London of discrimination when they were made redundant after complaining...
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Grey New York bucks industry trend with raft of ECD hirings
WPP may have imposed a hiring freeze but it doesn’t seem to have affected Grey New York. The WPP-owned agency has hired four new ECDs (executive creative directors) in a rather startling reversal of...
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