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John Billett: how agencies ended up owning the media
A few weeks ago we reported a lecture given by media agency veteran John Billett, now chairman of consultancy ID…
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Heineken buys Red Stripe from Diageo as merger mania takes over the beer market
Beer brands are being batted around like shuttlecocks these days as the £71bn merger of brewing giants AB InBev and…
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Will Comcast/NBC spark a bidding war for ITV?
ITV shareholders may be in for a 2016 bonanza if the Mail on Sunday’s report that US giant Comcast, the…
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Bank of America moves to IPG’s Hill Holliday
Interpublic has scored another big creative review win with Hill Holliday winning Bank of America’s whopper $1.6bn creative account, displacing…
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Matt Charlton: why the best Christmas ads of 2015 (and any other year) are the ones that get people talking
I’ve just watched about 40 Christmas ads in a row this morning after the agency Christmas party. It must be…
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Blow for Grey as global CCO Myhren heads for Apple
Tory Myhren, global CCO of Grey and president of its New York office – and, arguably, the world’s highest profile…
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Creative Belgium sets out to make ‘ad babies’
Creative Belgium is worried about the decline in the number of young creatives – fewer people at ad schools, fewer…
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Maurice Levy becomes the star of his own ads in (un)traditional Publicis Christmas video
We’re beginning to worry about Maurice Levy at Publicis. 2015 has, indeed, been a bumpy ride for the French marcoms…
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Harvey Nichols and a surprise from Kwik Fit top Realeyes ‘most engaging’ Xmas ad poll
Realeyes is a research tool which purports to measure people’s reactions to ads by tracking their facial expressions. Here’s its…
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