There’s an interesting interview in today’s AdWeek with new Y&R CEO Peter Stringham. Unlike the Jonah Bloom puff pieces over at AdAge, whoever did this (there’s no byline) did a good, intelligent and probing job. It’s no secret Y&R has not been doing well over the last few years, and Ann Fudge did not steer the ship away from the rocks too well (whether she was ever allowed to, is a question I don’t know the answer too.) Anyway, she got “The Elbow” (Is this my new catch phrase?) I liked the bit where the interviewer asks Stringham how he gets on with “The Poisoned Dwarf.” He answers that he was amazed how responsive he is. When he was a client (Stringham was President of HSBC, a WPP client) “He touched base monthly. He’s quite extraordinary. I don’t know how he does it. I have absolutely no idea. I don’t […]
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