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Robert Jenkins is a New Zealander who has worked in Australasia, Europe, the US and Asia – mostly for big international advertising agencies including Ogilvy, Grey and BBDO. He opened his own agency in London and eventually sold it to ...

WPP has bought UK firm Crystal Semantics which purports to match advertising to the content of web pages, thereby reducing the chances of it appearing where it shouldn’t – on porn sites and the like. Crystal Semantics will come under ...

WPP is merging its 24/7 Real Media business, which represents online publishers, with its own invention, Xaxis, which buys ad impressions in bulk and then, supposedly, targets them at the right audience. At least that’s what I think it does. ...

It’s not been a good couple of weeks for Havas CEO David Jones with Havas in the UK losing the big Santander banking account to WCRS and now the rather larger global Volvo account shipping out from Havas network Arnold ...

Giant drugs company GSK, some of whose employees in China have been detained by the authorities for allegedly bribing doctors hard on the heels of a $3bn fine in the US for misleading marketing, has landed its big feet in ...

Paul Vallois (left), managing partner of Partners Andrews Aldridge, says it’s time to re-evaluate the relationship between agencies and their traditional foe, client procurement departments. At a recent conference, Coca-Cola Europe’s marketing procurement chief Jane Dormer spoke about the need ...

The great and good (and maybe not so good) of the technology, media and telecoms world are gathered once again in Barcelona at the annual Morgan Stanley talk-fest, with John Wren and Maurice Levy (left) of the about-to-be-merged Omnicom/Publicis Groupe ...

Publicis Groupe, due to merge with Omnicom in the near future (as POG according to its enemies), is splashing out £35m to buy London media agency Walker Media according to a report in Campaign. Walker is 75 per cent owned ...

Is WPP planning to buy Interpublic? Oh yes it is, say numerous analysts and hacks; oh no we’re not, says WPP, in a series of seemingly firm denials that leave plenty of wriggle room for Sir Martin Sorrell (left) and ...

Moray MacLennan is CEO of M&C Saatchi Worldwide, the international arm of the UK agency formed in 1996 when Charles (no longer a partner) and Maurice Saatchi were defenestrated from Saatchi & Saatchi, then the biggest agency in the world, ...