Will Somebody Be Able To Steal HP Away From Goodby?
March 13, 2008
Hewlett Packard is supposedly unhappy with Goodby, Silverstein + Partners. That’s the word on the street. The computer maker is apparently shopping around for a new agency, but for which part of the business? Who knows. We do hear that an agency pitched them just this week. Was it your agency?
Rumors are always flying around about Goodby. It’s the haters. When you’re agency of the year, everyone will always speculate on when and where you will miss a step. Last time, it was the Sprint account. We didn’t believe it for a nanosecond, so didn’t bother posting it here. HP, well maybe… Calls to HP went straight to their giant media inbox. An email to Goodby, naturally, got us nowhere.
You know the deal. Send us an email at agencyspy at mediasbistro dot com or there is always the comment section. The only agency we know of that is monitoring emails sent to us is Idea City – GSDM. Can you believe it? Note to Greed, Sex staffers, please just use your personal accounts at home if you’ve got something to say, yeah?
March 13, 2008 at 8:52 pm
that would be a shame. their work for HP has been smart and interesting. maybe the client prefers dumb and dull?
March 14, 2008 at 3:23 am
Spy… If Goodby loses HP… I’ll eat my fucking hat. They have produced some of the best IT work for fucking years. Are sure you are not confusing them with Publicis SF… Who do really bad douchenozzle work for the boring part of HP? You need to check your spy’s on this piece of news!
Cheers/George
March 14, 2008 at 3:47 am
Correction.
Publicis Seattle does that really bad douchenozzle
work for the boring part of HP.
March 14, 2008 at 2:01 pm
HP is a tough client. Getting fired these days often has very little to do with the quality of the advertising you’re doing. Clients today are quick to blame advertising for marketing problems, mostly because they’re not going to point their guns at themselves.
March 14, 2008 at 6:05 pm
We read Goodbys Ad Age Article in Jan 2008, and someone pointed out the excerpt below and made a comment that it was a sneaky indirect jab, we thought nothing of it until now…. we re-posted it here:
…..”And though Goodby has been showered with accolades for transitioning to digital, the metamorphosis is hardly complete, as marketers working with the shop note. David Roman, VP-worldwide marketing communications, Personal Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard, who praises the agency for significant contributions to HP’s success, also says Goodby still has to master the social web and work out its position on public relations, where the line with advertising has begun to blur. While Mr. Roman sees the one-office shop as key to the agency’s success, he notes that questions remain about how Goodby can serve marketers with global needs”
March 15, 2008 at 4:09 am
As I posted on AdScam… Goodby didn’t get fired… Ace weirdo Garry Bowen got some feel good green shit thingie to play with. It certainly ain’t the HP account.
Cheers/George