The business will shift to McCann Erickson, which claimed the estimated RM25 million (US$7.7 million) account after a four-way credentials pitch believed to involve Ogilvy & Mather as well as the incumbent.

The news follows seven months after BBDO relinquished control of the KFC business in Singapore, where the account is now also handled by McCann.

I'm switching to Ayam Dingdings!

O.H. M.Y. G.A.W.D.!!!

Simply divine; that's all I can say...

From the deli at the Cold Storage in Ikano Power Centre. Made roast chicken sandwiches for my guests during my housewarming recently. All of them attested to its yumminess...

Heck, wuz popping slices into my mouth as I was shredding it... One whole bird for only RM11.99!

Must try!!

Wah that's a real bargain!

Any other juicy giblets?

Must be cheap also la.

Those still in BBDO better get out before the agency turn round n tell you got no money to retain you. RM25 million is a lot of money to lose. Or else just hop on hotlink account. Dont say we never warn you.

Jennifer should retain the hardworking people that have put their blood, sweat and tears into this account for so long.

It's not their fault that the powers that are beyond their control decided to move to Mccans-la.

Have a heart, Jennifer, don't be a chicken!

Betul!
After 19 tahun of lining your poket and allowing you to live
your pretentious lifestyle and buy ugly dresses, that's the least you could do,
Jennifur!

Got rumors that they are looking at removing between 12 - 15 people to make up for the lost in the business. If you tap the calculator that's just about the right amount as they cannot pay this people with hotlink money. It will be very unfair to make the Hotlink people work for the KFC people.

That's way too brutal man!

What have they done except slave over the stupid
account?

Is that the thanks they get?

The ECD should go too la!

This sucks big time, man!

All false rumoursla, nobody gets voted off!

One up for Jennifer Chan!

Other agencies beware, this is one hungry agency, protect your clients cos they will come a knocking soon!You have been warned!

Everyone knows they have been well trained. Other agencies will come a'poaching their people soon.

They certainly are. The creatives in BBDO are talented!

After last Friday's staff meeting, we have decided to stick through thick and thin. A hungry agency is a dangerous agency. Just you wait.

Two hungry agencies like McCann and BBDO on the prowl. Takut takut! They only need to bite into one big fat account so they don't have to suffer pitching much and exhausting their strength. If they're left too tired,
they can't fight off predation. Destruction will come
from the inside.

Just like Saatchi and Bozell at one time. Jennifer can request for monetary help, but she has to win more accounts to sustain the agency before year end. The only thing is that she might want to jaga muka and not resort to such measure. It's her call.

You think Ronald/Mun/Hans will go after Hwa/Sue's throat/s ah? If they do, who will win?

Unlikely, they would probably go after other fast food account,
like LB's Mc Donald's.

Or try to wrestle something out from the weaker contenders like Grey or Euro.

Or pry Toyota from Saatchi?

Anyone game to speculate or know of an account a bit shaky? Help the soon-to-be-homeless at BBDO!

You're right.

Chances are higher when they go after fast-food accounts
(Hey, Leo & Naga don't handle McDonald's anymore la. Another agency in Singapore got the business, I think).

Anyway, BBDO did a pretty decent job for KFC.
They should have no problem acquiring the account.

You also should know that the creatives at BBDO had
handled blue chip accounts before at their ex-agencies.
Risks are significantly higher if the contracts are expiring.

The suits at BBDO would probably be looking at other account categories missing from their portfolio.

You think they would go at the 'weaker' international agencies? They might, but they would run into contractual and internationally account alignment problems. They would
also have to endure a prolonged fight that might weaken their state further.

I think they might probably prey on local accounts.
To prevent money siphoning into America, they might start
up a 'local' outfit to handle Bumiputera accounts.
(Hey, if BBDO New York doesn't help them in this state,
why should they send money to America right?)

Of course, it's a fact that Jennifer's ears are planted to the ground. She would be the first to hear of account movements and would probably be the first to react.

Grammar suspek sikit

McCann - scam x 10000000000000000000000000000

BBDO - real job push to awards!

So, McCann suck.

Why agency waste so much time and money work and work on scam ads and if win spend more money for pr?

BBDO rank no 2 right? So how come after boast about that in newspaper then client KFC sack them?

Even Mc Cann not spared. Win KFC but going to lose Proton now. proton already ask 6 agencies to pitch.

So make us junior people so confused. Win aweard and do scam ads for what.

Why can the whole industry just do real work? And submit real work. And just be justice and award real work. Maybe only than client will able to judge agency based on award wins.

Now the way we do it, no point. clients dont endorse and KFc and Proton lost is proof.

very frustrating esp for us juniors. the seniors also cannot explain properly why.

Screw the kancil and the other awards. None of the stupid Golden Kancil winners like Toyogo plastics won anything anywhere. BBDO can continue to waste more resources and get their ECD to scam more ads and lose his main account and then they can sack everyone below him. We just have to concentrate on pleasing our clients and do good solid real work. Clients already know BBDO & McCann scam culprits. KFC hated being presented with scam ads but they chose the wrong new agency. But one thing sure you're right is that awards mean zilch to clients.

McCann use dirty tactics to win kfc. They bad mouth ronald and team as bunch of scam artists who cannot do real work. Because they lost Digi only months ago. Reason is also Digi clients found out their McCann teams to busy scamming and the real work dont work. so sack them. Seems like clients are getting more and more fed up with scams and awards. This trend will grow like wild bushwire. Hopefully, more and more agencies will lose big clients and agencies will learn their lesson and bertaubat. Maybe this is a good thing for the industry.

McCann got different teams handling real work and initiative work.

BBDO is rumoured to do scams only on Saturdays. Minimum 20 at least and must be of good quality or Ronald will hit the roof.

JWT is worse still. It is rumoured to do scams after office hours till midnight. Everyday.

Screw it. is there a internatiol agency that doesnt make staff slave over scam ads on a weekly or daily basis? I want to join them.

fuck you all stupid asshole... BBDO do scam? try to look to their portfolio again.

Let's face it, both scam la, where have you seen real work at the Kancils?

JWT, Saatchi also in the same boat, as with most big agencies, save for maybe Euro, Dentsu, TBWA, Grey, Bates, Long's Creative, CD Advertising, Crush ...

It would be sweet irony if BBDO won Proton from Mccanns!
Any chance of that being a reality?

if there's an agency who doesn't make people slave over scams, i oso wan to join. leo is but one of them. leo looking ah?

go strat side la. not so much pressure.

The global advertising review for Malaysian national carmaker Proton has been hit by two agency withdrawals, with Black Pencil and Ogilvy & Mather both pulling out.

Black Pencil, Leo Burnett's sister agency, cited conflict with Burnett's regionally aligned client General Motors as its reason to withdraw, while Ogilvy could not meet the tight pitch deadlines.

Agencies were given three weeks to prepare for a pitch that covers the Middle East, Thailand, India and Indonesia as well as Proton's home market.
According to a source, the "tough brief" involves looking at ways to export the struggling brand globally.

M&C Saatchi, incumbent McCann Erickson, JWT and TBWA-ISC\Malaysia remain in contention.

Proton faces a tough future in Malaysia in the face of rising fuel prices and intense competition from foreign imports, particularly from Japan.

Heard from sources LB is looking for a team.
My source tells me that Yew Leong is interviewing creatives.

This is his email.
yewleong.tan@leoburnett.com.my

As for the scams, I am sure they do them as well but they try hard for actual accounts.
Doing scams is up to creative teams I heard.

call yew leong.

I am truly at a crossroad. I am doing fine over here.
My request for another writer has been met so workload
is no longer a problem. Unlike the others who are fretting,
I have NO issue with the incoming GCD.

And yet, I feel I am missing something big if I were to
give this opportunity a miss.

In that lion's den, there are many super creatives.
I suppose only superstars will be hired. People like Kien Hoe (Kit's brother)and those who win gold after gold every year.

Surely they are not looking for bread-and-butter creatives?
I mean, why would they? Even superstars outside would willingly do bread-and-butter accounts just so they can get into Leo!

Stop blowing smoke up Leo Burnetts arse. The agency has done nothing for years. Except one ad that happened to strike a cord. It's about time. That ad was done by Yasmin. And she has essentially been writing the same ad for years. Finally she got it right.

Other creatives there don't do shit except waste away. When was the last time you heard about any of them doing anything. The mark of a great agency is an agency where everyone wins. Not just 1 team or 1 person.

Agencies like Saatchi, JWT, McCanns have blown Burnetts out the water long ago. And keep doing it.

Which of their award-winning ads have you seen? Which of their real ad won a Yellow Pencil?

Leo Burnett semua depend on Yasmin to win big. Then again, semua CD kat agensi lain depend on their small pool of award-winners to win big. Kalau we analyse baik-baik, our sterling winners tak banyak sangat. Boleh kira dengan jari satu tangan.

Betul tu!I sokong!

Kesian the rest of the industry have to do real, regular shit work!

Which makes this industry a real joke kan?

Kesian betul.

Wow, that's interesting! Both award-winners!

Hmm...let's take a break from all those porn scandals
and talk about advertising people. I heard Kit is so dedicated to film-making that he had re-financed
his house to support his new endeavour.

We should be supporting him!

Maybe we can start a forum for him.
Let's discuss his best short-films.
What's your favourite?

Alternatively, we can discuss famous
award-winning siblings in Malaysian ad industry.

Kit Ong/ Kien Ho

Ronald Ng/ Raymond Ng

Kins, Henry, Elmo

There are many others!
Since this is the new Scamshome,
we will avoid all those rubbish rumours.
Let's limit the discussion to their career.

I know some of you may be tempted to go through
their trash, but honey, it's not dignified.
Forget about what their ex-girlfriends say
about their performances in bed. We're only
interested in their performances on award nights!

Don't stir shit. Thanks!

The slaughter has begun. 2 casualties so far. You know anywhere looking ah?

Can BBDO New York help? Some say it was a silly grammatical mistake that irked the Dato. Apparently, another Dato called him to ridicule him on the boo boo. He got his chance to sack BBDO. Another camp said it was because of account alignment. Which is true?

who are the 2 pray tell?

from which department?

But if I were to announce their names, it would make finding new jobs for them that much harder. Let's just say people make mistakes. We're not God. But I am sure we can be more forgiving and able to do a little kindness in God's name.

...and give them a hug and say "Listen buddy, I think I've got the job for you".

Terperanjat mereka nanti. Berak tahi hijau!

Better drop them clues...by feeding those close to them names of agencies which are looking.

I'll start with Rapp Collins.

And Leo Burnett.

And Saatchi and Saatchi (junior team, but what the hell, maybe they'll consider them).

so they are from creative?

from creative. that's the first phase.

eh you sure or not?

news was everyone stays and pitch like mad.

sommore won gold at cannes mah..

Pitching like mad, yes. But it's a RM25 million loss.
Asking a creative team to go off quietly isn't going to do. The good ones will cabut as well. Without being asked.
I heard Hans' last day is today. That one sure got red carpet all rolled out for him already.

At least we know Hans is safe.

Award-winners like him sure got calls one. Slow sikit someone else will grab. Good attitude some more this guy.

since you let the cat out of the bag, (sorry sue) you may as well let us know the identity of the other person.

agree, he will have no probs getting a better place!