Finance
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Sky Sports unveils David Beckham as latest trophy signing in battle with BT
What a joy, Beckhams all over the place. Actually this ad may be called ‘Meet the Beckhams’ but it’s only…
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WPP-owned Team Detroit’s new boss David Murphy has to be good at politics as well as selling Fords
WPP is famous for creating bespoke agencies for its clients (the latest is Plus for Chanel) but the daddy of…
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Mother shows off its full range of skills in One Room Paradise for IKEA
Will agencies ever develop online content for brands as a revenue stream to rival ads? We’ve been hearing about it…
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Hollywood talent agency WME buys into Droga5 – so can Aussie Dave take on WPP et al?
Hotshot New York and Sydney agency Droga5 (and, recently, London) announced a few weeks ago that it was going to…
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Is there anything that WPP’s ever-acquisitive Hogarth production giant can’t turn its hand to?
Everywhere you turn these days there’s Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP (obviously, it’s just bought a social marketing research company in…
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New IPA Bellwether survey paints picture of higher adspend in an improving UK economy
As we suspected, the IK IPA’s new Bellwether survey of marketing expenditure shows that marketing budgets in the UK were…
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Did Aegis’s financial wheelings and dealings scupper Posterscope’s chance of winning Tesco?
UK out of home buying giant Posterscope has been a huge driver of parent company Aegis’s profits, realised last last…
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Intrepid Indy owners the Lebedevs bet the dacha on new TV station London Live
The Independent newspaper, which also publishes a separate Sunday edition, the cut-price 20p i and the London Evening Standard, is…
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Campbell Ewald in, Deutsch out as Interpublic rejigs Lowe network to suit Cadillac
Campbell Ewald in Detroit has won the Cadillac account, officially anyway as Hill Holiday in Boston is providing creative work…
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