Omnicom’s DDB is rolling its New York workplace into adam&eveDDB, the offshoot of the high-flying London company however one which has hardly set New York alight since launching about 5 years in the past.
The brand new workplace will likely be led by Caroline Winterton who has joined from Digitas.
DDB, the quintessential NYC company within the Mad Males period, is now primarily primarily based in Chicago. Beneath co-founder Invoice Bernbach it produced seminal ’60s and’70s promoting together with VW’s well-known ‘Lemon’ and ‘We Strive More durable’ for Avis.
DDB world president Alex Lubar and A&E CCO Rick Brim have been wheeled in to assist however DDB, alongside different holding firm inventive networks, together with Omnicom’s BBDO and WPP’s raft together with VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, are struggling to retain the eminence they as soon as loved (Wunderman is large in ecommerce.)
Eventually, one suspects, there will likely be Omnicom inventive (not probably the most inspiring moniker), Publicis Inventive and all the remainder of it. WPP Inventive now, in impact, pitches for large accounts together with, latterly, John Lewis Partnership within the UK (unsuccessfully.)
