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CHI&Partners has hired Lean Mean Fighting Machine co-founder Dave Bedwood as a creative partner. Bedwood will report directly into joint ECDs Yan Elliott and Micky Tudor and CEO Sarah Golding (all below, Bedwood second right). Bedwood has worked at agencies ...

Publicis Groupe seems to have stopped the rot in the first half of 2017, with increased net income of €387m against €381m last year. Revenue was up 1.9 per cent to €4.75bn but organic revenue growth, the key measure for ...

TBWA\London has hired new creative and planning chiefs in a search led by Lucky Generals, the agency it bought a majority stake in back in February. Saatchi ECD Andy Jex has joined as CCO and MullenLowe planning chief Anna Vogt ...

MullenLowe doesn’t sound the most exciting of agencies but there’s usually a surprise around the corner and this time it’s the Interpublic-owned agency’s plan to buy London independent 101. The Lowe component of the merger with US-focussed Mullen has been ...

The BBC has been forced by the Government to disclose its top paid “stars” and a rum lot they are. Presenters and actors employed by production companies (sometimes their own) are exempt. Here’s the list according to the Guardian. 1. ...

The UK’s ASA seems to have put the cat among the pigeons with its somewhat prescriptive plan to ban “gender stereotyping” ads, with lots of people saying its too bossy boots/Big Brother (the book that is). Here’s a compilation of ...

Based on a number of industry events, I find it surprising that arguments still rage around data vs creativity or technology vs humanity. It’s not a zero-sum game. Data, analysis and modelling have become integral parts of advertising – and ...

It’s good to see that an ad can still cause an international stir and this modest effort from Audi in China certainly has. A Chinese mother-in-law inspects a bride at a wedding in the cause of promoting Audi used cars ...

Marketers usually cut back budgets when times get tough – as they seem to be following the Brexit vote – but the new IPA quarterly Bellwether Report says they’re actually planning to spend more, chiefly on digital. This despite doom ...

The Us Army dumped McCann Worldgroup from its shortlist for a new agency for technical reasons, according to Ad Age. These included the formatting of unspecified documents and an inability to confirm McCann’s status as a certified contractor, despite the ...