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Honda has authored some of the best car advertising on either side of the Atlantic but there’s still something rather staid about the cars. All fine and good in the sense that you don’t hear about vast numbers of Hondas ...

I’m sure that there were loads of telecoms ads entered for last week’s Cannes Lions (can’t recall any of them winning big but no doubt there were a few). By and large, as with any other category I suppose, they’re ...

I wonder how many brands are trying to change airtime or copy since England crashed out of the World Cup? Over this last weekend I was surprised to see several spots on TV very clearly believing England would still be ...

I was very lucky to have lunch with John Salmon a couple of days ago. John was the chairman and creative supremo of legendary UK ad agency Collett Dickenson Pearce & Partners, the UK’s most awarded agency for campaigns like ...

The presence of ad tech at Cannes Lions has grown dramatically over recent years and last week’s festival brought this to light. As consumers are faced with information overload, brands are finding personalised targeting more important than ever before in ...

Omnicom is close to securing 370,000 sq. ft. of office space in London’s newly-fashionable South Bank area, the former RBS office at 2/3 Bankside, just off Southwark Street south of the River Thames. The US-owned marcoms giant has been looking ...

Cannes 2014: And finally, another crazy Cannes week comes to a close. Ad execs across the world head back to their agencies with their skin a little more tanned, their livers a little less functional, and hopefully, their pride still ...

Cannes 2014: The Cannes speaker line-up this past week has been staggering. The sublime to the ridiculous. We’ve had actors, musicians, activists, scientists, business leaders, tech pioneers and Kanye West. But sometimes what you really want is to just hear ...

Cannes 2014: WPP is claiming the crown as ‘holding company of the year’ at Cannes 2014 and says that its star network, Ogilvy & Mather, is the highest-scoring network for the third year in a row, beating Omnicom’s BBDO once ...

Cannes 2014: Adam&Eve/DDB London won its fourth Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Lions, for the Harvey Nichols ‘Sorry I Spent It On Myself’ campaign which has already bagged the agency Press, Promo & Activation and Integrated Grand Prix. Forsman ...