The Design Lions shortlist brings some cheer to the MENA camp at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. A total of 11 pieces of work have made it to Design Lions shortlist. Six from these are from the United Arab Emirates, where Y&R Dubai… Read More
A total of seven entries from the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region have made it to the Direct Lions shortlist at the ongoing Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Lebanon has three entries coming from Beirut offices of J. Walter Thompson and Leo… Read More
J. Walter Thompson has kicked off the second year of its Helen Lansdowne Resor (HLR) Scholarship, an international opportunity designed to support and promote talented, creative, female advertising students. Named after Helen Lansdowne Resor, the industry’s and J. Walter Thompson’s first female copywriter, the HLR… Read More
In the first quarter of 2016, WPP’s reported revenue was up 10.5 percent at USD 4.49 billion. On a like-for-like basis, excluding the impact of acquisitions and currency fluctuations, revenue was up 5.1 percent. The pattern of net sales growth, a term that WPP uses… Read More
Whether it was the setting up of GroupM last year, the consolidation of the research offering under Kantar Consumer Insight or even the launch of Data Alliance, which is an aggregation of all data across WPP companies, all signs indicate that WPP is leaving no… Read More
The J. Walter Thompson sexist and racist scandal that led to the ousting of its global CEO Gustavo Martinez, is seeing holding company CEOs not only introspect on some of the issues facing the industry globally but also begin a word war between WPP CEO-… Read More
J. Walter Thompson has launched a global campaign ‘Donate the Bars’ to promote the usage of the black bars that appear on either side of the vertical videos on YouTube for a good cause. This is done by converting the black bars into ad space… Read More
He takes the stage, and he inspires. For Ramsey Naja, Chief Creative Officer, J. Walter Thompson Middle East & Africa, it is the combination of his absolute belief in the region’s creativity and a die-hard call for the region’s creative minds to find their own,… Read More
More than 30 agencies have been awarded at the 10th Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity. J. Walter Thompson, Memac Ogilvy, Leo Burnett and FP7/ have retained the top slots from 2015 albeit in a different order. Impact BBDO has not only replaced Y&R but… Read More
Memac Ogilvy’s Doha and Dubai office secured the Print Lynx Grand Prix, awarded to the ‘Star Pattern’ campaign for Qatar Islamic Bank. There were no Golds in the category. J. Walter Thompson Dubai won three Silvers, one each for ‘John McEnroe’ for Kinokuniya, ‘Right To… Read More
