In the old full-service days, people never used to go into ‘media’. They went into advertising and specialised in media. Or they went into sales, and specialised in selling ad space or time.
Agency Management – Echoes of the Past
19 October 2017
Disclosure – I have done work in the past for the7stars, mentioned here
Last week’s Cog Blog noted that out of the six major holding companies, the UK heads of three of them (Havas, Starcom, Carat) along with the EMEA President of OMD have all announced their departures.
Changes, Changes
13 October 2017
This post was going to be all about the new ‘Campaign’. But it would be remiss of me not to log that this was the week in which four out of the six holding company media operations lost a senior UK-based member of their management.
Transparency Bites Aegis
06 October 2017
Disclosure – I worked at Aegis from 1994 – 2000
‘Transparency’ as a topic isn’t going to go away, despite the holding companies (in particular) doing the corporate equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears and dancing around going la-la-la.