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Person of the year This was the easiest for me as David Droga deserves to be voted most influential person on the planet at the moment for the performance of Droga5 in 2013. In just seven years in New York ...

Robert Jenkins is a New Zealander who has worked in Australasia, Europe, the US and Asia – mostly for big international advertising agencies including Ogilvy, Grey and BBDO. He opened his own agency in London and eventually sold it to ...

Mcgarrybowen is often beaten with the stick labelled ‘safe – not creative’ but it’s pulled out all the stops to launch Verizon’s Droid Maxx phone with what, at first, looks like this year’s flavour – ‘advertainment.’ And indeed the campaign ...

The great and good (and doubtless not so good) of world politics are gathered in Soweto’s Soccer City today to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela and The Economist has produced a fitting tribute to the great man, courtesy of agency ...

Agencies are always unsettled when a new marketing director arrives at one of their clients. The wisdom handed down over the years is a new marketing director will attack the easy things to change to make a mark quickly such ...

Graham Fink began his career at Collett Dickenson Pearce as the youngest member of, arguably, the most talented creative department ever in the UK. He went on to produce award-winning work at GGT, Saatchi & Saatchi and WCRS before becoming ...

Ford is bringing its famed ‘muscle’ car the Ford Mustang back to Europe after 20 years or so and what else do you need in a Mustang than a classy and slightly dodgy-looking bird? So Ford (and maybe WPP’s Blue ...

WPP has bought UK firm Crystal Semantics which purports to match advertising to the content of web pages, thereby reducing the chances of it appearing where it shouldn’t – on porn sites and the like. Crystal Semantics will come under ...

Laura Wade is the head of Maxus Partnerships, a new division at the WPP-owned media agency that aims to build content-focussed relationships between consumers, clients and media channels. Here she explains why the focus of branded content needs to move ...

Agency of the year Droga5 No surprise, ‘cos I’ve been pimping them all year. I’m with Mike Lee for all the logical reasons he lays out… Plus, any agency with the balls to sell a client a wonderful spot like ...