Sable replaces McLennan as head of Y&R – more spring cleaning by WPP boss Sir...
Well you have to ask, Y&R Advertising CEO Hamish McLennan (pictured) is on his way, following hard in the footsteps of other WPP operating company panjamdrums Paul Taaffe at Hill & Knowlton and...
View ArticleProspective employers tussle over former Y&R boss Hamish McLennan
Hamish McLennan, chairman and CEO of WPP-owned Young & Rubicam, stood down in February, announcing he was to return to Australia for family reasons. Now, safely ensconced in Oz, he’s the subject of...
View ArticleNow Y&R loses $60m Office Depot, the mood music around the agency isn’t good
Office Depot isn’t a particularly big account but it’s one of a series to depart WPP-owned Young & Rubicam in recent times. And the New York agency has recently lost a number of key people...
View ArticleWho’s next for Bacardi? Wieden+Kennedy, Crispin Porter, Droga5?
Well a big payday might be coming for one of them as Campaign reports that Bacardi is reviewing its ad account at Young & Rubicam and looking for a ’boutique-style’ US-based agency. None of of...
View ArticleY&R plugs a big creative gap in New York, ditto Dentsu in London – but where...
The aforementioned gap in New York was created by Wieden+Kennedy poaching joint Young & Rubicam CCOs Scott Vitrone and Ian Reichenthal to revive its New York operation. Filling it is...
View Article$70m Accenture drops Young & Rubicam for TBWA
The turbulence continues at Young & Rubicam with long-term client Accenture, the business services giant that was formerly Andersen Consulting, switching its $70m account to TBWA Worldwide....
View ArticleShock for JWT London as CEO Guy Hayward quits for Havas’ BETC
JWT in London has had more bosses than you can shake a stick at in recent years and now the latest, Guy Hayward, who joined from 180 Amsterdam which he co-founded in 1998, is leaving after just two...
View ArticleWPP’s Sorrell gives troubled Y&R a big vote of confidence with planned move...
Well that’s the way it looks anyway as WPP has taken an option to move Young & Rubicam into 3 Columbus Circle, a big refurbed office block off 8th Avenue and near Central Park. This would mean...
View ArticleFormer Y&R boss McLennan lands new hot seat at News Corporation
Out of the frying pan into the fire you might say for Hamish McLennan who resigned as boss of WPP-owned Y&R last year and has now taken a new role, developing ‘global brand partnerships,’ for...
View ArticleWPP’s Sorrell tries to stem more Y&R defections
WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been touring Australia (two days’ worth anyway, it’s only a continent) and one of his duties has been to try to persuade high profile Y&R Brands boss Russell Howcroft...
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