Caring About the Work

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.

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Agency Management – Echoes of the Past

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.

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Changes, Changes

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.

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Transparency Bites Aegis

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.

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