FEBRUARY LEAGUE: M&C Saatchi tops creative list, Carat leads media

ASIA-PACIFIC - The February Business Performance Update sees M&C Saatchi on top of the creative list thanks to wins from Commonwealth Bank Australia and Cerebos Asia China, while Carat moves atop the media ranking thanks largely to General Motors.

CREATIVE AGENCY PERFORMANCE LEAGUE

NEW RANK

Last year Agency Recent wins Estimated YTD win revenue (US$m) Recent losses YTD totals (US$m)
1 -12 M&C Saatchi Commonwealth Bank Australia, Cerebos Asia China 9.02 9.02
2 -2 DDB ExxonMobil Singapore, SOTC India, Pepsi Indonesia 5.6 5.53
3 -14 McCann Worldgroup Maxis Communications Malaysia 5.07 J&J Australia 4.77
4 -7 TBWA Betstar Australia, Amanora Town Centre India 2.93 Yatra.Com India 2.65
5 -3 Leo Burnett GlaxoSmithKline Iodex India, SDLG Volvo China 2.58 2.58
6 -9 Lowe True Thailand, Krungsri Thailand, J&J Stayfree Australia 2.47 Philippines SSS 2.15
7 -8 Grey Group Birla Tyres Singapore, Honda Motors India 2.15 Philippines DoT 2.14
8 -4 Publicis BaWang Shampoo China, Nescafé Malaysia 1.58 1.57
9 -1 Ogilvy Landcom Australia, BMW Malaysia, Incredible India 3.11 Maxis Malaysia 1.36
10 -21 DraftFCB Air New Zealand (part), Apure Taiwan 1.37 Raid Hong Kong 1.17

 

MEDIA AGENCY PERFORMANCE LEAGUE

NEW RANK Last year Agency Recent wins Estimated YTD win revenue (US$m) Recent losses YTD totals (US$m)
1 -6 Carat General Motors Asia Pacific, Pfizer Wyeth China 19.93 Kao Malaysia 18.63
2 -13 UM Australian Government, NBN Australia, ING Australia 7.05 GM Thailand 4.3
3 -7 PHD Tourism Victoria Australia, Philippines SSS 3.99 3.99
4 -9 Vizeum Panasonic Malaysia, Shanxi Mobile China, KINAZ Taiwan 2.28 2.28
5 (–) Dentsu E1 Korea, SUM Taiwan, Taiwan Beer 0.96 0.96
6 -11 Initiative Coca-Cola Thailand, AJE Group SEA, Zuji Hong Kong 0.83 Merck Indonesia 0.62
7 10 Maxus GSK Australia, Mathrubhumi India 1.05 Dabur India 0.52
8 -4 MPG Madman Australia, Hugo BOSS Digital China 0.21 0.21
9 -12 MEC TVS Indonesia, Manulife Indonesia, E.Sun Bank Taiwan 1.07 Henkel China 0.17
10 -3 ZenithOptimedia Siemens China, Masan Foods Vietnam 2.36 Pfizer W China -0.14

 

METHODOLOGY The New Business League published in Campaign Asia-Pacific has been compiled with the assistance of R3 and PricewaterhouseCoopers using data supplied by 26 multinational agencies on a monthly basis to PWC and R3, leading independent consultancy focused on tracking of agency performance, and marketing ROI for clients across the region. In addition, this data supplied is balanced against Client Estimates, Nielsen ADEX, discounted to appropriate levels and then converted to a revenue estimate. R3 and PWC strive to be accurate in all reporting, but welcome comments and questions. Please send your queries to greg@rthree.com or newbusinessleague@hk.pwc.com.

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