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Maverick publisher Felix Dennis (Viz, Auto Express, The Week and many others, some of which he picked up from people who’d run out of money) has died from cancer aged 67. Here he is telling Sky’s Jeff Randall how he ...

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: what have Jim Henson, Martin Amis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dr Seuss got in common? They all started their careers in advertising. There was once a time when advertising could lure the best creative people in the world. ...

Cannes 2014: Adam&Eve DDB’s second Cannes Grand Prix of the week – the Press Grand Prix (below) to add to its Promo & Activation GP, both for Harvey Nichols – must put it on track for a record-breaking haul of ...

The latest figures from IAB Europe show that online advertising is winning over the ad industry, with reported growth of 11.9 per cent representing a market value of €27.3bn in 2013. But while it’s great that online is proving so ...

There’s something about local TV, in the UK anyway, that makes most people yawn (I’ll be keeping an eye out to see how many of you read this). Now Jeremy Hunt, former Culture Secretary who foisted local TV on the ...

Cannes 2014: What do you buy the man who has bought everything? If you’re looking for a present for Sir Martin Sorrell (left) this Christmas, anything related to American political drama House of Cards will probably be welcome – he’s ...

WPP qualitative research operation Millward Brown has bought Amsterdam’s EffectiveBrands marketing consultancy to combine it with its own consultancy operation Millward Brown Optimor. The unit will now be known as Millward Brown Vermeer, the consultancy with a pearl earring presumably. ...