Singapore - Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore has been named Agency of the Year 2007 by Marketing Magazine, one of Asia's leading industry magazines. The Agency of the Year award is based on performance across key disciplines such as creative, direct marketing and digital. Agencies are assessed by 11,958 senior clients and industry professionals across the region. After only ranking in…
Auckland - Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand has capped off a spectacular award-winning year for both creativity and effectiveness by taking Asia-Australasia's most prestigious prize - AWARD Agency of the Year. The New Zealand office also collected 16 awards across multiple disciplines at the AWARD event in Sydney last Friday night. And that, along with excellent performances from the Saatchi…
London - There was another strong showing for the Saatchi & Saatchi Network last week when the 2007 Eurobest winners were announced. Topping the list was Saatchi & Saatchi Germany, who took two golds for the '20 degrees C' mailing they created for Procter & Gamble's Ariel in the Direct/Sales Promotion category. They also collected a silver award for the…
London - Saatchi & Saatchi has hired Richard Huntington as Director of Strategy for the UK. Huntington will report into Robert Senior and sit on the UK board. He was planning director at United London, formerly HHCL, for six years before it closed in April having joined the agency in 1997. Since then he has been running his own strategic…
Carouge - Geneva-based advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi Simko is opening an office in Zurich at the start of 2008. The expansion into Zurich reflects the agency's consistent growth strategy following its outstanding success in recent years. According to the latest BSW ranking, Saatchi & Saatchi Simko, with its 92 employees, has quickly become the second largest Swiss advertising agency. "We…
Manila - Arthur S. Young Jr., Chairman of Ace Saatchi & Saatchi Philippines, has announced the appointment of Matt Seddon as the agency's new President and CEO. With more than 15 years spent in Southeast Asia building leading agency franchises, and turning around ailing offices across the region, Mr. Seddon is expected to accelerate the revitalization and new growth of…
Cape Town - To mark World AIDS Day on 1st December, Rolf Fitschen and Gareth Cohen, members of the creative team at Saatchi & Saatchi South Africa's Cape Town office, decided to bring the rambunctious bunnies that adorn the outside of their building into line. Red ribbons were placed on the one hundred plus rabbits decorating the windows over the…
Manila - Building on the momentum of their recent assignments from the SM Investments Group - Agency of Record for the entire SM Food Retail Group as well as for their Hamilo Coast residential and leisure estate, SM Investments has now officially named Ace Saatchi & Saatchi in the Philippines as AOR for the Mall of Asia Complex. This is…
Wellington - How do you convince New Zealanders to fall in love with mail again? New Zealand Post and Saatchi & Saatchi have launched a campaign to do just that. The campaign, the start of a five year programme for New Zealand Post, will reawaken that latent knowledge and love of mail. The three 60 second TVC's, billboards and other…
Beunos Aires - Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi in Argentina has once again been recognized as the Best Agency in Ibero-America at the recent "El Ojo de Iberoamérica" festival. This is the second time in a row, and the third time in five years that the agency has achieved this honour. El Ojo de Iberoamérica is renowned as the…
Bratislava - MUW Saatchi & Saatchi in Slovakia has announced the appointment of Ivan Hulík as their new Managing Director. He was most recently director of the agency's T-Mobile unit. Hulík graduated from Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava and started his professional career in advertising back in 1997. Since then he has gained experience working in senior positions…
London - Saatchi & Saatchi has hired Paul Silburn to partner Kate Stanners. Both will assume the newly created title of creative partner. Silburn is widely recognised as one of the best creatives in the industry. He is one of the most awarded creatives in the world and regularly appears on advertising "who's who" lists and awards judging panels. Robert…
London - Eighteen years ago tomorrow UNICEF's Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified. An entire generation has now lived their full eighteen years of childhood under its protection. For this landmark anniversary, UNICEF has launched the 'CRC@18' campaign to raise awareness about children's rights and the impact of the Convention. To help celebrate this momentous occasion, Team…
London - This week's 2007 London International Advertising Awards put the icing on the cake of a fantastic year for Saatchi & Saatchi New York. They put in a stellar performance, winning the Print Grand Prize with their work for Stuffit Deluxe, as well as eight Gold and four Silver statues. Nine of the awards were for Procter & Gamble…