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Good to see that Campaign could still throw a pretty good party at last week’s Cannes Lions. And doesn’t the logo/typography (on the sail-type banners) still look great? Almost a lost art of course, and all thanks to eccentric Swiss ...

What to make of the verdicts in the great phone hacking trial? Former News of the World editor, Downing Street head of communications and lover of Rebekah Brooks Andy Coulson (left) has been found guilty of conspiring to hack phones ...

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 ...

In a move highlighting the growing popularity of video blogging (‘vlogging’), an unheralded Belfast start-up is supplying video creators with a free digital tool which allows them to add clickable products, people, place and music tags within their videos. The ...

I’m sure that there were loads of telecoms ads entered for last week’s Cannes Lions (can’t recall any of them winning big but no doubt there were a few). By and large, as with any other category I suppose, they’re ...

I wonder how many brands are trying to change airtime or copy since England crashed out of the World Cup? Over this last weekend I was surprised to see several spots on TV very clearly believing England would still be ...

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: And finally, another crazy Cannes week comes to a close. Ad execs across the world head back to their agencies with their skin a little more tanned, their livers a little less functional, and hopefully, their pride still ...