Stefano Hatfield on the year when M&C took on the world, Dyke won
Channel 5 (sort of), Kevin Morley Marketing sold out and Ivana and
Donald got together for a pizza
WINS
Howell Henry drinks to Martini... DMB&B wins Burger King...McCann-
Erickson beats a sexy shortlist to Sega...Chiat Day comes to Radio 1’s
rescue...W. H. Smith reappoints BBH - a real coup...HHCL lands National
Savings...Abbott Mead Vickers wins Mars, Texas and Pizza Hut...Rainey
Kelly finds time for Miller... BMP wins Michelob and Budweiser - at a
price... Philips turns to Euro RSCG...Cogent wins the RAC...Trott is re-
united with Toshiba... Simons Palmer lands Sony PlayStation (with the
help of O&M in Europe)...CDP lands Courts...JWT wins Colman’s... BBH
wins Lynx and other Elida Gibbs projects...Leo Burnett tastes victory
with Johnnie Walker...BBH wins Mercury One-2-One, signalling the end of
Robert Lindsay and Beatrice Dalle... BMP takes the Labour Party amid
much politicking...the Royal Mail lands on Dorlands’ mat...the Media
Centre wins Dixons media... Mellors Reay becomes Burton’s first
agency...the Media Centre wins Courage media - all of it...Loaded wins
the title of biggest selling men’s magazine... Chiat Day comes to the
Observer’s rescue... Duckworth Finn takes Sky, many say it is
welcome...Bates fills the Pedigree hole with a chunk of Spillers...JWT
scoops Stena and Cable (and we’ll believe the budgets when we see
them)...Leo Burnett wins UB media...WCRS takes First Direct, although
the client insists he’s not moving...TMD Carat scoops all of News
International (cf Sky)...GGT wins John Smith’s - will the Penguins get
the bullet?...Greg Dyke’s Pearson consortium wins the Channel 5
franchise and legal headaches... Saatchi and Saatchi wins Dr Pepper and
the launch of Norwich Union Direct...Mellors Reay takes Mr Kipling...Y&R
takes Colgate globally... Rainey Kelly takes the Times - good luck
LOSSES
Butterfield Day loses Labour just when it might win...Hovis ditches CDP
after 30 years...BMP resigns Courage for Budweiser to the disgust of
John Nicolson...AMV loses pounds 24 million Comet to Saatchi and
Saatchi...KHBB axes 18 jobs in preparation for a management buyout that
doesn’t take place...Grey loses Texas Homecare to AMV after holding the
account in various guises for years...Grey loses Brylcream to WCRS after
ten years... McCanns loses Coke across Europe to Publicis in a
humiliating decision... BBH loses Sky - not too many surprises
there...BBH resigns Cadbury’s and causes a good deal of internal soul-
searching at the client... FCB loses Surf to the new A&P Lintas
BIRTHS
Michelle Stapleton and Emily Bliss launch Brave Films...Adam Stanhope
and Robert Ditcham launch Rocket Science...Burkitt Edwards Martin born
of the merger of Burkitt Weinreich and Edwards Martin Thornton...Amanda
Walsh joins Dave Trott to form Walsh Trott Smith Chick...Howell Henry
shows some Imagination in setting up In Real Life...Forward launches a
Silk Cut magazine... BBH gets a Motive...the Conde Nast Forward
Publishing Agency signs its contract... the HHCL Brasserie
opens...Windows 95 starts up with the help of the Times... Chris Palmer
sets up SMILE later to become Gorgeous...Trev and Al name themselves
themselves...Federation launches amid much Propaganda...St Luke’s
launches to less ridicule than expected...A&P Lintas (it’s still Lintas
even if it’s not still Still) doesn’t
DEATHS
Bert Sprote; Palmer and Denton go their separate ways... Emap’s Car Week
after huge losses...the School of Communications Arts closes, sadly, due
as much as anything to industry apathy...Laing Henry (sold to
Cordiant)...the 40-year-old voluntary ban on TV spirits advertising is
broken by Virgin Vodka...Don White of pneumonia...Kevin Morley Marketing
sells to Lintas...Redwing Films closes down after nine years because it
wasn’t fun any more...Chris Martin dies in tragic circumstances...WMGO
finally gives up; it’s missed by few...unlike GQ’s Michael VerMeulen,
mourned by everyone...BT’s CCU department became popular in death, a bit
like John Lennon...GGK finally gives up and becomes Doner Cardwell
Hawkins... no tomorrows for Today, a real shame
MONEY
The Tories go to law to get out of their Saatchi and Saatchi
contract...Alec Kenny threatens to sue Talk Radio over the size of his
leaving package...BA unveils a pounds 1.4 million Hugh Hudson
blockbuster, there are no legal repercussions...Walton and Wiggins goes
into liquidation...WMGO bought out by the management from the group for
pounds 1 (not including Woollams)...Tony Kaye settles with British
Airways for most of his pounds 730,000 - ‘I’m a happy Jewish man’...the
IPA and Channel 4 slam ITV for not investing enough in
programming...Virginia Bottomley rejects Channel 4’s plea to scrap the
ITV safety-net formula...Hook...the Telegraph threatens to levy a charge
on late ad copy...Vaughan and Anthea join Federation for what is
believed to be the first transfer fee in production company history
GEMS
Harley-Davidson (sorry Adrian)... Club 18-30 (sorry D&AD)...IBM (sorry
all luvvies everywhere)... Allied Dunbar...the National Canine Defence
League...Carl Lewis in Pirelli...Stella Artois... Smirnoff posters...
McDonald’s slice of life campaign - what a turnaround Leo
Burnett...Daewoo...Radio 1... VW dealers - the freebie ad...Hamlet
‘action man’ and ‘lottery finger’ - good to have it back...Volvo
‘twister’, Virgin Cola... Haagen-Dazs...News of the World trade
campaign...Tango... Haitai...Weetabix...Sainsbury’s ‘romance’...Oliviero
Toscani and Tony Kaye’s D&AD lectures...Levi’s ‘drugstore’ and
‘clayman’... Mates... BMW M3 convertible press ad...Red Stripe...Irn-
Bru...Nike Cantona poster... Holsten, especially ‘he’s an asshole’...Pot
Noodles ‘frilly and faffy’...Miller Time...Sony Widescreen TV...
Campbell’s Malcolm Meatballhead... Jiffi Condoms... Martini ‘beautiful
people’...Arrol’s - at last someone’s captured the truth about booze
TURKEYS
The Bill Bore campaign - everything listeners hate about radio ads from
the Radio Advertising Bureau...the name ‘Cordiant’ (a gift for its
knockers)... Robert Lindsay and Beatrice Dalle in Mercury One-2-One
(RIP, sniff)...Beck’s (grade A turkey, oven ready), Kronenbourg que
signifie 1664? (who bloody cared?)...Foster’s (Courage worst)...Herta...
Tortella...Wrigley’s Doublemint (onions?)...Vauxhall Vectra (oh dear -
what happened?)...Nokia...Nissan Almiera (Trevor?
Help?)...Kinder...Maurice Saatchi’s D &AD speech...Coca-Cola (it needs
to be said, come on)...virtually every perfume ad - why?... Burger
King... Werther’s Original Toffees... Gateway and Dorian (cringe)...do
we still count Ferrero Rocher as a turkey?...the dreadful BT
soap...Andrex Ultra (not by JWT, right)
BUST-UPS
The English Collective of Prostitutes hits out at the Harley-Davidson
campaign... TBWA tries to absorb Chiat Day in London, announcing the
deal as a fait accompli, and neglecting to mention the London shop in
its own release. Chiat Day vows to stay independent, and does...Medhi
Norowzian threatens a law suit against Guinness for - allegedly -
copying one of his films... John Nicolson slams BMP after the agency
resigns Courage after 25 years to take on Budweiser - ‘I’ll call it
Needham from now on’...Graham Cornthwaite, the photographer, rows over
money allegedly owed to him by Stak... Graham Hinton slams DMB&B’s
management as ‘incompetent’ and ‘bizarre’ after the sacking of Tony
Douglas...Adrian Holmes launches a crusade against yobbish ads...WMGO
ousts Chris Woollams; he hits back, branding former colleagues
‘mice’...Carlton’s Steve Platt launches a scathing attack on the Channel
4 airtime sell...women’s mags ban a Cyclax ad attacking luxury cosmetics
products... RHM fires JWT from Mr Kipling in a row over an Entenmann’s
conflict which doesn’t materialise. ‘For some agencies these days the
short-term greenback rules over what really is important,’ the client,
Colin Tether, says...Tony B versus Tony K...Club 18-30 wins at D&AD, but
doesn’t...‘Lowe is approaching Cannes with dedication and a little
trepidation’ - Campaign’s headline was a major understatement as Frank
Lowe’s juries decline to award some of the top prizes...the Pringle
Arkell Nokes buyout collapses because the trio can’t agree in which
order their names should go...the Guardian falls out with Wired...the
ASA raps charities for inaccuracy... DMB&B slaps a writ on Graham Hinton
after he leaves - of course, it is withdrawn later...half London’s
agencies claim to have come up with the same Pentax idea... Banks
Hoggins and PHD split up... Hook vs Hutchison makes the High Court
TASTE
You, the reader, decide - Sky: ‘The price is right so they come on
down’...Harley-Davidson...Club 18-30’s ‘Beaver Espana’ etc...Naomi
Campbell and Ian Wright in a nude foldout cover for Esquire and Harvey
Nichols...Chiat Day and Trevor Beattie’s anti-rape ads... Guinness
disowns its ‘gay’ ad...Calvin Klein and its ‘child porn’ work...‘read
this you piece of shit’, the Anti-Slavery International ad...John
Bobbitt’s severed penis makes its inevitable ad debut in animal rights
campaign... Rainey Kelly’s ‘drop a bomb on French plans. Boycott French
wine’ spot featuring a hitman...the Prudential reviews, but doesn’t tell
Mustoe Merriman...Pepe’s tumbling ad...Lemsip’s exploding mushroom cloud
EXITS
Beatrice Dalle and Robert Lindsay in Mercury One-2-One, sorely missed
(honest)...Giles Keeble leaves Leo Burnett...Tony Douglas is sacked as
joint chairman of DMB&B...Kevin King and John Madell leave Euro RSCG as
Mark Wnek and Brett Gosper put their names above the door...John
O’Donnell exits Saatchi and Saatchi after just six months...Richards
Hall and French exit French Walton Wiggins Hall before anyone got used
to them being there...Alec Kenny quits Talk Radio after a staff
mutiny...a lot of top kit is stolen from several London facilities
houses, later a wave of computer chip theft strikes agencies... News
International’s chief executive, Gus Ficher, leaves...John Billett
splits from the CIA Group...Kara Noble quits the Capital Breakfast show
for Heart FM...Mark Andrews leaves Propaganda and becomes a
Rogue...Chris Dickens leaves Y&R...Alan Tilby goes quietly from
WCRS...Nintendo leaves JWT...Roy Jeans exits Zenith for
Mediaforce...Michael Higgins quits Mills and Allen in a row over
investment...Marcelle D’Argy Smith goes out with a bang at
Cosmopolitan... Hinton exits DMB&B likewise...Mike Shafron leaves Leagas
Shafron Davis Ayer...John Kelley is given the boot from Publicis while
on holiday...Mark Gault loses his power struggle at McCanns...David Pugh
leaves the Telegraph...John Wilson departs CDP after 18 years...Sir Nick
Lloyd leaves the Express after ten years
THE SAATCHI AFFAIR
It’s all on News at Ten, and the front pages of the nationals...Maurice
quits, the three amigos follow, as do Dicketts and Lowther...MacLennan
and Hurrell arouse the most ire by saying they won’t leave and then
doing so. Maurice has a party to entice staff. ‘Let’s kill Piggy’ -
mutinous Saatchi and Saatchi staffers say after the resignation of the
three amigos...‘James and Simon were like the last members of a
supergroup reforming for one final tour, but what were Moray and Nick
going to do? Stand around and shake tambourines?’ - a Saatchi and
Saatchi insider writing a diary of events in Campaign...‘Scotland Yard
to probe nuisance Saatchi calls’...M&C Saatchi is set up, first as the
New Saatchi Agency...Charles Saatchi goes to the office and buys
sandwiches for everyone...Writs fly...It gets ridiculous. Bill Muirhead
is sued for dollars 50 million...‘gardening leave’ enters advertising
vocabulary...M&C wins the Mirror Group, Dixons, Gallaher and after a
long, controversial pitch, BA... Meanwhile Jennifer Laing goes back to
Charlotte Street, which displays a lot of spirit: ‘So, who wants to be
the world’s favourite now?’...peace breaks out...Bob Seelert takes over
at the daftly-named Cordiant... M&C wins Courage, PPP and Glaxo...Next
year? War or peace?
TONY WHO?
He organises a demo of Hasidic Jews against BA for alleged racism...his
‘Paula Yates we want you to be our executive producer’ ad is rejected by
the Guardian...‘Quentin Tarantino joins Tony Kaye,’ but does he?...Hype
art is everywhere...Tony Kaye’s giant erection appears at the
Hayward...‘Jew for sale’ Tony Kaye ad in Campaign...Kaye is laid out by
Stak in the Groucho in an argument over Graham Cornthwaite...Tony Kaye
cleans up at D&AD...and promptly walks into a barrage of criticism from
Tony Brignull. The Tony versus Tony fight inexplicably makes it to News
at Ten...everyone takes sides: ‘I’m with Tony on this one’ - Tony
Bodinetz...Oh yeah, he wins his fight with BA, and does the ‘twister’ ad
MOVERS
Mike Moore joins the European...Alan Rusbridger becomes editor of the
Guardian...John Farrell is the controversial new group chairman of
DMB&B...Andrew Robertson leaves WCRS for Abbott Mead surprising no-one
but Robin...Caroline Marland is promoted to managing director of the
Guardian and Observer...Richard Wheatly returns to Golden Rose radio and
hires Jeanie Bergin...David Reich joins the CIA board...Phil Georgiadis
joins Initiative...the ‘feisty feminist’ Rita Lewis is made Playboy TV’s
managing director, ‘It’s sexy of course, but...it’s not degrading to
women,’ she says without choking...Stan Myerson to TVX as head of sales
(cf Rita’s quote)...Virgin Vodka is the first spirit to air on
TV...Robin Wight becomes adviser to the Rover board on ad policy...Chris
Jones becomes co-president of JWT Worldwide...Mandi Norwood is the new
Cosmo editor... Gerry Moira exits WMGO for a return to Publicis...Piers
Morgan takes over at the Mirror and Andrew Jaspan goes to the
Observer...Andrew Cracknell moves to a new-look Lintas and is the only
new name not to go above the door (Tara surprises everyone by following
him)...Roger Parry exits Carat for MOFA...Charles Moore takes over at
the Daily Telegraph and Simon Heffer the Sunday Telegraph...Scott
Sherrard becomes chairman of CDP...Mike Court returns at Burkitt
Edwards...Jean-Michel Goudard crosses the Atlantic to BBDO
STARS
Carl Lewis sprints on water for Pirelli... Cantona and Ferdinand turn
out for Nike anti-racism...Paul Newman signs up for Lux (yes
really)...Donald and Ivana Trump get back together again for Pizza
Hut...Prunella Scales and Jane Horrocks debut for Tesco...Gary Lineker
is Walkers ‘no more Mr Nice Guy’...Liz Hurley shrugs off Hugh’s to
launch Estee Lauder’s Pleasures...Carol Vorderman threatens to sue BBC
for sacking her from Tomorrow’s World for appearing in an Ariel Future
ad...John Abineri, the butler at the ambassador’s party, is the VE
veteran in Yellow Pages... Muhammed Ali smiles for Adidas... Cheggers
and Nicholas Parsons incite an Ikea review...David Platt turns in a top
performance for McDonald’s...Kiki Kendrick - what a star on Blind
Date...Damien Hirst, Martin Amis, Gilbert and George and other luvvies
on the D&AD jury...Bruce Forsyth tops them all for Courts
QUOTES
‘My relationship with Terry Mansfield has been like a Wagner opera -
wonderful moments and terrible half-hours.’
Marcelle d’Argy Smith
‘The Independent is a big risk for me, but then I enjoy taking risks.’
Ian Hargreaves (short-lived Independent editor on his appointment)
‘That sure is a shit-stirring headline. Whoever wrote it should be
shot.’
Bill Tragos (on Campaign’s ‘TBWA deal with Chiat Day triggers London
revolt’)
‘Amanda should make a great mother hen.’
Robin Wight on Amanda Walsh’s move
‘I’m bursting with no comment.’
Loz Simpson on leaving Bates Dorland
‘While I’m away the mice have come out to play...this is tantamount to
fiddling while Rome burns.’
Chris Woollams
‘We hope BA will be very happy with its new agency.’
Simon Sherwood of BBH
‘We feel like sitting ducks. Advertising’s becoming an easier target for
the press than the Royal Family.’
Steve Grime
‘Most people in agencies don’t know they don’t know. They are on
broadcast not receive.’
Dave Trott
‘In a nutshell, that’s my problem with Tony Kaye’s work: I don’t believe
it.’
Tony Brignull
‘I’m sending him some Alka-Seltzer to get the acid out of his system.’
David Abbott on Brignull
‘I was a little hurt.’
Frank Lowe on reactions to his Cannes juries’ decisions
‘If people say we’re importing the US to the UK, well fuck them.’
Propaganda’s Steve Dickstein
‘I’ve got no intention of changing agencies at the moment.’
Peter Simpson of First Direct
‘Are there too many tits in advertising? Probably.’
Trevor Beattie
‘Advertising is a dead body that keeps on smiling’
Oliviero Toscani
(In a heavy Irish accent) ‘Jaysus. I think old Chirac must have let off
one of them bombs’ - a Kinsale local’s reaction to the mass putting on
of creatives’ Ray-bans when the sun peeped through at the festival
‘It’s true to say that I’m going to Australia for the culture.’
Fergus Fleming
‘GQ is now less fuck a girl and more make love to a woman.’
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