Jeremy Lee

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...

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. ...

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.

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.

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