On this week’s #MediaSnack, Tom and David highlight the many reasons to be cheerful about media. They discuss the year so far – including the ANA report and the over-charging scandal in Japan – and the impact these events are ...

The Co-op reappointed Leo Burnett to its account following a pitch and here’s the first new campaign, plugging fairtrade products but without lots of shots of gloomy-looking South American farmers. In fact it’s perkier all round than the agency’s previous ...

Lots of interesting campaigns around at the moment – or about to break. Anomaly won the Freeview TV platform from Leo Burnett late last year and is about to uncork a campaign with a suitably Anomalous twist. In partnership with ...

Desperados is a tequila-flavoured beer from Heineken (each to their own..) and it’s running an ‘Unleash your inner tequila’ campaign. The latest instalment takes music festivals to new heights by creating what it calls the first zero gravity festival in ...

Poor Sam Allardyce, he was only trying to wrangle an extra £400,000 as a “keynote speaker” (well they’re valuable – aren’t they?) on top of his modest stipend of £3m as England manager. What’s a chap supposed to live on? ...

Omnicom media agency M2M recently lost founding client Estée Lauder to sister agency Manning Gottlieb OMD (OMD is Omnicom’s biggest media agency in the UK ahead of PHD) and now, maybe, we can see the reason behind this odd move. ...

Will there still be an Argos as we know it in a year’s time? One agency hoping there will be is CHI which handles the hitherto big-spending hybrid retailer, now owned by Sainsbury’s. Interestingly, while Sainsbury’s sales by value are ...

There’s a big debate going on in Marketing Land about the need for content to fill all those proliferating online channels and also who’s the best partner to supply it (see Oliver/Unilever story today). There’s something of a duel going ...

The march of Oliver Group continues apace with a deal to set up an in-house ‘content’ agency, U-Studio, for Unilver as the FMCG giant seeks to create more ‘seek out’ content as opposed to the stuff that interrupts, namely ads. ...

MullenLowe’s Mediahub has struck a significant blow on behalf of creative agencies trying to win back media duties by winning Western Union’s global media account against Dentsu Aegis’ Vizeum and Publicis Groupe’s Zenith. Western Union is reported to be worth ...