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***More not-so-good news for McCann in the US as it’s losing Weight Watchers, worth $150m, to Wieden+Kennedy. McCann New York boss Chris McDonald, recently escaped from the vale of tears that’s McCann London, announced the move today. Weight Watchers’ US ...

Twitter has beaten Facebook to the punch with the launch of its new mobile ad network – based on its recent MoPub acquisition – which, it claims, can reach over a billion devices worldwide using Android and Apple operating systems. ...

Video monitor Visible Measures has produced another of its most popular virals list, this time for ‘cute’ ads from the UK, in time for that festival of cuteness, Easter. And the kings of cute appear to be Wieden+Kennedy, for Three ...

The good times seem to be rolling at last, at least according to agency trade body the IPA’s latest Bellwether survey of UK adspend. Interestingly, main media showed the biggest growth at 11.7 per cent, overtaking internet which languished (relatively) ...

Women are rather thin on the ground in senior London creative roles but DLKW Lowe is remedying that to a degree by hiring Amber Casey (below, left) and Lovisa Silburn as creative directors. The two worked together at DDB back ...

“If it doesn’t work for everyone it doesn’t work at all” says IKEA in this new campaign, ‘The Wonderful Everyday,’ from Mother. Which is an interesting notion: IKEA-land has always seemed somewhere that has its devoted fans with lots of ...

Lots of bad things can happen in the back of a cab – or van – and DDB New York is rowing in on this in a new campaign for cab app #GettAnything. It’s the way the world is going. ...

Remember Maxwell House coffee? It used to be the perennial number two to Nescafe before coffee got taken over by baristas. Maybe it’s bigger in the States. Anyway current owner Kraft has handed it over to brand revival experts Wieden+Kennedy ...

Zierler Media, owner of ethnic TV sales agency ZMTV, is teaming with mainstream sales agency Media Icon to launch a combined sales operation. In the new operation, ethnic and adult-interest channels currently sold by ZMTV and Zierler Media will continue ...

Marc d’Avignon and Jay Berry have joined US creative agency Translation as ECDs, re-uniting with old Wieden+Kennedy comrade CCO John Norman. The three worked together at W+K Portland from 2005 to 2008. Translation, founded ten years ago by music exec ...