- Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO is a UK-based
advertising agency which has produced several well-knowntelevision commercial s, including:*Several adverts for the
Guinness "Good things come to those who wait " campaign, including "Surfer", which was voted the best television commercial of all time in a UK poll conducted by The Sunday Times andChannel 4 , and "noitulovE ", which won more awards than any other campaign worldwide in 2006. [Gunn, D;, Wilkie, E; "The Gunn Report and Showreel of the Year (8th edition),FlaxmanWilkie , 30 November 2006. ISBN 978-0955164613]
*TheBBC One trailer "Rush Hour", featuringparkour andfree running withDavid Belle , which first brought the art to mainstream attention in the UK.History
Peter Mead andAdrian Vickers had founded Mead Davies & Vickers. David Abbott, previously ofDDB Worldwide , joined them in 1979 to form Abbott Mead Vickers.Long established as the UK's biggest advertising agency, AMV became the local outpost for the US network
BBDO in 1991, via a minority stake. BBDO acquired the remaining shares in 1998, and it was renamed Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO.Along with publishing agency Redwood, direct marketer Craik Jones, and integrated agency Proximity and others, AMV BBDO forms part of AMV Group. [ [http://www.amvgroup.com/about.html AMV GROUP - Integrated Solutions ] ] AMV Group is, in turn, owned by
Omnicom Group .References
External links and references
* [http://www.amvbbdo.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.amvbbdo.com/tv_video/Guiness_surfer.mov Guinness "Surfer" advert]
* [http://www.creativeclub.co.uk/prelogin/btaa/ads/bbc_rush_hour__rush_hour_.mov BBC "Rush Hour" trailer]
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