What exactly does a chief talent officer do? Is it (yet another) new name for the head of HR (which we used to call personnel)? Is it the equivalent of a football team’s chief scout (often called director of football ...

Long-running campaigns are becoming a thing of the past but Kronenbourg 1664 has been employing French footballer turned actor Eric Cantona profitably for a while now although the ads, from Ogilvy & Mather, somehow seem to slip under the radar. ...

Coronation Street has been adorning ITV for a somewhat mind-boggling 57 years – still taking 40 per cent of the TV audience on some occasions – so it’s reasonable enough for the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster (in terms of audience ...

Viewers have been turning off from Sky Sports for multiple reasons: the cost, the fact that it doesn’t have all the football any more, for all I know all those bloody betting ads. Too much hype maybe. So what do ...

It’s Monday and so the Havas New York purge should be well underway – a tidy office means no more silos (or rubbish) it seems – according to Adweek’s Agency Spy. Bolloré-owned Havas is being bought by dad Vincent’s Vivendi ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below) reports its half-year results on Wednesday but it seems pretty clear what the headline numbers will show: little or no organic growth (against expectations of 0.5 per cent) although the rather well-informed Sunday Times ...

Great minds evidently think alike: Mars is launching a new global campaign for Dolmio sauces purporting to show that proper meals bring families together even when everybody – including a somewhat over-the-top dad played by the very actorish Dominic West ...

WPP’s MEC media agency, which is merging with the holding company’s Maxus, has made a big statement of intent by hiring Amanda Richman (left) from Publicis-owned Starcom as its US CEO. Richman, currently president of investment at Starcom US, will ...

Jung von Matt’s work for Edeka, the biggest German supermarket chain, is usually worth a look – in the past we’ve had notable tearjerkers at Christmas, among others. This one for barbecues is utterly nuts. Seems to work for Edeka ...

London agency BMB has been appointed to handle the Campaign to End Loneliness account, a new one on me but they’re supposed to be spending £4m this year and next. Can you really end loneliness? Isn’t it a (disagreeable) part ...