Disney calls for re-pitch on online task

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Disneyland has called on interactive marketing agencies to re-pitch for its online business. The move comes after WPP's Ogilvy & Mather won the creative assignment in November last year, following a closely-fought pitch against Leo Burnett.

Ogilvy will also handle PR for Hong Kong Disneyland.

According to sources, three interactive agencies were called to re-pitch for the business, including Ogilvy's interactive arm and online marketing services company Web Guru Asia.

"Disney doesn't consider interactive to be a big part of the bundled services. It is going with another pitch because it wants a specialised interactive (agency) and has found that Ogilvy's interactive (unit) wasn't strong enough," said a source.

Roy Tan Hardy, vice-president, marketing and sales, Hong Kong Disneyland, said: "(Ogilvy) has already started work on the (creative) assignment and for the interactive, we will look to Ogilvy for creative guidelines.

There are many elements to the (Disneyland) site. It's a wide, multi-channel site, which we will introduce in phases. It will also be bilingual."

Hardy said a decision on the theme park's interactive agency would be finalised within a week. He added that the site would target both consumers and the travel trade.

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