Piecing together the details of Omnicom’s new DDB-based creative agency for McDonald’s is a diverting entertainment and some clues have emerged from an Adweek panel in New York. McDonald’s CMO Deborah Wahl (below right with DDB’s Wendy Clark) said the ...

She may not fancy the soubriquet very much but she is. Saatchi & Saatchi’s esteemed global CCO Kate Stanners (below) is now its new ‘chairwoman’ too, replacing the defenestrated Kevin Roberts, part of a veritable smorgasbord of new titles at ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack, Tom and David highlight the rather sad news that the media transparency concerns are not going away anytime soon. Stories have been emerging this week from Japan where Dentsu, the dominant advertising services group, has admitted ...

Dentsu president and CEO Tadashi Ishii (below) has released a statement, owning up to numerous charges of overbilling clients for digital advertising. There’s a lot of it (the statement that is) but it makes interesting and somewhat perturbing (for clients ...

Channel 4 CEO David Abraham has shown a sure touch since he took over in 2010, even his decision to ditch Big Brother, its biggest ratings winner, now doesn’t look quite so daft. But he may be wondering exactly what ...

Big time media buying is the scandal that just keeps on giving and now Japanese giant Dentsu finds itself in the dock, accused of overcharging massive client Toyota for digital work over a five year period. Toyota says Dentsu has ...

That Maurice Levy is such a tease. The Maurice Chevalier of French advertising (below) has told a Goldman Sachs conference in New York that Publicis Groupe may announce a new CEO as early as November even though he’s not stepping ...

Legacy publishers are racing to become something else in the digital era and Centaur Media, owner of Marketing Week and Creative Review, is venturing into new territory by buying pitch consultancy Oystercatchers. Oystercatchers, founded by Suki Thompson and Peter Cowie ...

VCCP, now owned by Providence Equity and WPP following the £374m buyout of Chime Communications, is spreading its wings with the launch of a New York outpost. The move comes via Muhtayzik Hoffer, the San Francisco agency it bought in ...

the American 4A’s agency trade body is still at loggerheads with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), pulling out of an ANA panel on ‘transparency’ at Advertising Week in New York next week, preferring to do its own thing at ...