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I hope no-one from WPP’s GroupM is planning to break bread with boss Sir Martin Sorrell this weekend because it could prove a daunting experience. Sainsbury’s has decided to keep its £60m media account, one of the UK’s biggest, with ...

WPP’s giant Out of Home agency Kinetic Worldwide is launching its Kinetic Active division in Germany. Kinetic Active is a full-service creative and production shop which says it wants to “raise the creative bar of out-of-home marketing.” It launched earlier ...

The UK public is hungry for health content and expects food, drink and retail brands to help combat serious national issues such as obesity by providing practical content, according to the latest ‘Health and the High Street’ report from content ...

Integrated agency LIFE has been appointed by the UK’s largest hospitality company Whitbread as the lead creative agency for the Beefeater and Brewer’s Fayre pub restaurant brands. LIFE won the work following a competitive pitch against Initials and BDNtwk. Incumbent ...

Charlie Bigham’s posh convenience food has muscled its way into some of the big supermarket chains – actually bought its place on the shelves at vast expense probably – but, like all such brands, will find the competition never goes ...

Here’s another ‘Friends’ ad from Facebook’s in-house agency The Factory – well factories churn out stuff don’t they? – directed by Mike Mills of MJZ (so they don’t do everything themselves). An agency boss was telling me recently that you ...

Coca-Cola’s iconic bottle is 100 years old this year (what did Coke come in before?) and it’s celebrating with a huge global campaign costing a cool $100m plus. Various agencies have been signed up to help including Wieden+Kennedy and Ogilvy ...

Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) has awarded AnalogFolk the Lucozade UK digital marketing account following a pitch. AnalogFolk will now be responsible for digital strategy, creative, content, social and digital innovation for Lucozade. The agency will work alongside creative agtency Grey ...

Brand Republic, the Haymarket Media Group umbrella encompassing Campaign, Marketing, Media Week and PR Week, has given itself a spring makeover with a new design and mantra: ‘The Smart Filter.’ Haymarket says: “The relaunch follows months of audience research and ...

Much shuffling of the deck chairs in London’s adland this week (just because you shuffle the deck chairs it doesn’t mean the ship is sinking necessarily). JWT London has a new management structure aimed at “developing collaborative processes for its ...