Post by XxbagpussxX on Jun 25, 2007 19:33:14 GMT
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Some nice photos here of a very tired looking James performing some exclusive tracks from "All the lost souls" on the 19th June at the Havas Cafe, Cannes.
And an interesting snippet from an article in an Austrailan newspaper - perhaps a warning to us all .....
(full article: theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21940468-7582,00.html)
Some nice photos here of a very tired looking James performing some exclusive tracks from "All the lost souls" on the 19th June at the Havas Cafe, Cannes.
And an interesting snippet from an article in an Austrailan newspaper - perhaps a warning to us all .....
On Tuesday night David Jones, the Australian-trained global chief of French-based network Euro RSCG (part of Havas), held a swish party for 100 specially selected guests.
Jones's lure, aside from the fine wine and champagne every function here is awash with, was heart-throb singer James Blunt.
Blunt had been supplied by Havas client Warner Music, and Jones introduced him with a quick speech about what a great group Havas was.
But he went on to say that Euro the agency faced the same dire future as Warner.
The CD was dead, he said, and so was the 30-second ad. Both of them, he warned, had to reconfigure themselves for the future role of being content providers in a world where the source of revenue remained indistinct. In Cannes this week it seems every agency is now a content provider, but the question is: where is the money coming from?
Clients, Jones told me earlier, want cheaper ads (whatever their form), agency groups want bigger margins and staff want more money. Something has to give, particularly when the financial models remain ill-defined.
Jones might have looked to the audience of swooning women for a further warning signal of just how perilous things are.
As Blunt took to the stage to sing three songs from his next album, an Australian journalist quietly switched on her digital recorder.
The challenge of the future was right before Jones's eyes and he couldn't even see it.
(full article: theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21940468-7582,00.html)