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Thanks to my eagle-eyed friend George Parker for this – George’s devotion to the Adscam cause knows no bounds. Agency 72andSunny is determined to make an impact at the Super Bowl for burger client Carl’s Jnr so it’s enlisted the ...

Contagious London has been plugging away for Kingsmill for quite a while now, via an old-fashioned family, the kind of people you used to see in ads all the time. Now daughter’s gone to university but mum’s no longer around. ...

London creative agency Albion, which describes itself as the creative business partner, has been appointed by food business Glorious, which makes soups and sauces among other products. Albion, now majority-owned by MDC Partners and part of the KBS Group, specialises ...

OK, we’ve done the creative agency billings (AMV BBDO came top once again with £461m), here are the media agency Nielsen billings for 2014. Of the total £9.8bn spent in the UK, just over £2bn is so far unallocated, £347m ...

Nielsen will be finalising its 2014 ad agency figures, to be published in Campaign soon, but here’s a sneak peak at the raw numbers. Of the £9.3bn in ad spend registered, £2bn hasn’t been allocated yet, £1.5bn was direct (all ...

101 is one of a gaggle of newish London agencies trying to make their mark – including a number of US imports like Droga5 and Mcgarrybowen – but it appears to have made a breakthrough of sorts with this campaign, ...

Agency hierarchies are a veritable tangle of origami, the more so since the widespread adoption of C-suite titles – even companies with seemingly one employee often have a CEO these days. This is particularly so in creative departments. Ever since ...

‘Goodbye unfair banking, hello NatWest’ is a pretty brave statement from the RBS-owned bank and agency M&C Saatchi but an appealing one for a disenchanted market. And, as with M&C’s best work, the point is made clearly and effectively, in ...

Garbage collectors are unlikely heroes for a sports shoe ad but we can expect the unexpected from Brazil’s F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi. Apparently the people who have the unenviable task of keeping Sao Paulo clean run an average of 20km ...

Here’s a sexy film – a really sexy film – for Vogue.com directed by Gustav Johansson of Iconoclast. 2015 will be the year of ’50 Shades Of Grey’ in the entertainment business and we wait to be regaled by anguished ...