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Havas Creative Group (which is a new one on me) is relaunching two of its agencies Havas EHS and Havas Discovery, as Helia. This is essentially a refresh of the French-owned company’s one-time direct marketing business. Helia now boasts ‘data-related’ ...

The top man at McDonald’s, president and CEO Don Thompson, has paid the price for the fast food giant’s stuttering performance and is leaving the company at the start of March. He is to be replaced by chief brand officer ...

It’s a funny old two-speed world and there’s more proof of it this morning: Apple has announced an $18bn quarterly profit – the biggest by any company in history – while flagging online company Yahoo has finally bowed to financial ...

WPP’s digital supremo Mark Read is stepping down from the main board to become CEO of Wunderman, once a direct marketing agency, now more of a digital supermarket. He succeeds Danel Morel who is becoming non-executive chairman. This will be ...

Internet service company Tencent (left) has become the most valuable Chinese brand for the first time, according to WPP research company Millward Brown’s latest Brandz survey of the country. Newly-listed online retailer Alibaba entering the rankings at No.2. Both brands ...

There are some strange doings at M&C Saatchi. Last year the agency, now well-establshed in London and the proud owner of an international network as well as a stock market quote, bought digital agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine for an ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell is an interesting choice to debate inequality (total pay packet over the past two years £48m, estimated net worth £200m, and that’s with the big divorce out of the way). But that’s what he was doing ...

OK, we’ve done the creative agency billings (AMV BBDO came top once again with £461m), here are the media agency Nielsen billings for 2014. Of the total £9.8bn spent in the UK, just over £2bn is so far unallocated, £347m ...

Nielsen will be finalising its 2014 ad agency figures, to be published in Campaign soon, but here’s a sneak peak at the raw numbers. Of the £9.3bn in ad spend registered, £2bn hasn’t been allocated yet, £1.5bn was direct (all ...

What do the Sun newspaper and the four founders of M&C Saatchi have in common? Well they’re children of the 1960/70s, faced (as we all are) with the need to change with the times and, eventually, pass the baton. So ...