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This ad featuring one Alexandria Morgan has apparently been banned (by whom and from what we know not). It’s for the Tom Tom Runner Cardio (another one of those) and has proved very popular on YouTube with over 500,000 hits ...

Former Rapport global CEO Roy Jeans (left), now running media consultancy Grey Scorpion, has invested in UK search engine get me media and been appointed an executive director of the rapidly-growing company which is backed by IBIS Media and other ...

Wieden+Kennedy London recently won the global ad account for Brown-Forman’s Chambord black raspberry liqueur and it’s gone all Frrrench for the debut campaign, ‘#becausenoreason.’ Global marketing director Alexander Sneen says: “We are excited to bring a step change to Chambord ...

RECMA has revealed its UK media agency billings computations for 2013 and WPP/GroupM’s Mediacom was the biggest with billings of £2.65bn followed by Dentsu’s Carat with £1.96bn and another GroupM agency Mindshare with £1.84bn. in all the big networks accounted ...

Which mental images spring to mind when you hear the word “Nordic”? Possibly polar bears (false) or reindeer (granted, somewhat true). Or melancholic movies, hard-to-assemble minimalist furniture and lycra’d men with rifles on narrow skis (all very true)? Well, whatever ...

Surfing has a certain existential quality that plays well in ads (think Guinness) and Samsung has teamed up with the Association of Surfing Professionals (blimey, we’re all professionals these days – apart from hacks) ahead of the new US Open ...

It’s not that long ago that Omnicom and Publicis Groupe were trying to arrange a $35bn merger. Perhaps it’s just as well they failed because the two giant companies seem to occupying not just different domiciles but different universes. Publicis ...

TBWA Media Arts Lab has just produced a nice new TV ad for the Macbook Air featuring cartoon stickers for ‘the notebook people love.’ But it’s gone. Has Apple, which grows more Stasi-like by the day, decided it’s not going ...

The shock news coming from Tesco this week – yet another profit warning and a revolving door at CEO level – reinforces previous comments in MAA on the huge challenges facing juggernaut bricks and mortar brands in a changing world. ...

Media agency evaluator RECMA has named WPP’s Maxus as the fastest growing media agency network in the world over the past five years. This follows growth of 13.3 per cent in 2013 with Maxus global billings hitting $11bn. In the ...