Saatchi and Saatchi News

After some youthful business ventures, including selling pirated video games, he survived a near-bankruptcy experience with sharemarket investing, took a short-lived job with Fletcher Challenge Forests and started the online-betting business Feverpitch.

Jeremy Lee thinks JWT London has done itself proud with its HSBC spot for the Lions tour: "A nice idea well executed.

Peter Cullinane, co-founder of Lewis Road Creamery premium butter and co-founder of Antipodes Water.

Helen Weisinger, the group chief marketing officer at EDC, is to leave the business at the end of May, as the responsibility for new business and marketing falls back to the group's individual agencies.

When an individual has achieved great success, it is not unusual for others to want to learn from them.

EE has added Dare to its agency roster with a brief to work on its digital proposition, following a competitive pitch.

Continuing to build its agency team, AOL Advertising has brought in Anthony Romano and Ed McHugh as global head of its Publicis Groupe team, and global head of its Dentsu Aegis and Havas teams, respectively.

"It's funny how raw a child's reaction to something is. There's no filter. It's just really physical and that's what I love about it," said Matt Gilmour, creative director at marketing agency Saatchi & Saatchi.

FOR the past four months or so, the Nigerian advertising industry has been regaled by stories of a face-off between one of the leading Ad Agencies in the country, Prima Garnet, and her erstwhile affiliate, Ogilvy & Mather Africa, over the marketing communications business at Airtel Nigeria.

We all remember those dreaded times as a child when your parents forced you to eat your vegetables.

Toddlers: the new crop of food critics . Marketing agency Saatchi & Saatchi captured kids in a dramatic, slow-motion video as they react to trying weird foods for the first time.

Tata Global Beverages, which owns Tetley and other tea brands, is putting its creative account up for review as part of its drive to improve marketing effectiveness and efficiency.

The First Taste captures in delightfully slow motion the unfettered reactions of a group of children trying certain foods for the first time.

Work began yesterday on the new Streamside Quarter beside the Porirua stream, which will connect a water-facing plaza and new street to the railway station, harbour and through to the inner-city shopping area.

Registrations are now being taken for the Cooney Lees Morgan Regional Business Women's Conference to be held in Tauranga at the end of May.

LBi London's office was transformed last week into a mini conference suite populated by sharp-elbowed suits.

Saatchi & Saatchi won the digital business after a pitch against two undisclosed agencies.

GoCompare.com was the most complained-about advertiser of the past year with a total of nearly 2,000 complaints, according to the Advertising Standards Authority.

WPP ad shop Grey has been awarded lead global creative advertising responsibilities for P&G's iconic Gillette brand after a nearly eight month review, the client and agency confirmed Monday.

The other finalists were Saatchi & Saatchi and the incumbent, BBDO. The assignment is global.