Publicis Media’s Starcom has retained Procter & Gamble’s £210m media account with an expanded brief, winning press buying among other tasks from WPP/GroupM’s MediaCom. P&G is the UK’s second biggest media account after Sky. Aegis’ Carat and new Omnicom media ...

The UK’s D&AD awards is an international affair these days and for the first time this year the UK was displaced as best performing country by the US. As such it may be a useful guide to Cannes for those ...

Isobel’s debut campaign for Kelly’s of Cornwall ice cream last year went back to basics by being partly in Cornish. So this year it’s back with some more tuition on this strange tongue – Kernewek it seems, voiced by Dawn ...

Why do agencies knacker themselves over pitches? Why does the work for them always seem to take place at weekends. Is everybody really so busy? Here’s the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce spin on it with unappealing and flawed (even by ...

Golin and MullenLowe have combined for this new Magnum Double/Moschino campaign – ‘release the beast’ – featuring the world’s most valuable eyebrows and some promising cartoon beasts. The beasts will feature on some Moschino bags, no doubt at a beastly ...

Wieden+Kennedy’s mid-season efforts for Three are usually noteworthy – often featuring cutesy animals, cats and ponies in recent iterations. Now, however, Three and W+K have invented their very own animal kingdom, with help from post production wizards The Mill. First ...

The US Association of National Advertisers has given agencies, especially media agencies, a fair old kicking over the past couple of years with its report into media transparency in particular (a new one is due out this week) but there’s ...

Havas appears to have stolen a rather important march on its rivals with today’s launch of its Client Trading Solution (CTS) which it calls a client facing, fully transparent “control tower” displaying all programmatic trading, allowing clients to track and ...

Beans Meanz Heinz often tops informal polls of the best ad line so it’s clever of BBH to bring it back as it sets to work on what should be a big account. And you need all the help you ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack, Tom and David continue our countdown to the one year anniversary of the ANA’s Media Transparency Report by looking at key areas of significant change, this week they look at Media Talent. One of the key ...