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It’s that time of year again, as we keep keep saying, and we’ve asked our panel of distinguished columnists to choose their agency, network, ad or campaign and person of the year. First up is Fearlessly Frank chairman and man ...

Anyone who’s been living in a cave may not know that British model cum national institution Kate Moss has stripped off (mostly) to mark Playboy’s 60th anniversary (and her 40th). Which makes it a media story of course, so we’re ...

Nick Flora is a senior copywriter at Innocean USA, the house agency for Hyundai and Kia (and a pretty good one at that) and a while ago he started to sponsor a Kenyan orphan Doc Nigorlem. Doc and his pals ...

We observed a couple of weeks ago, apropos Santander’s disastrous sports celeb TV campaign in the UK, that tyro golfer Rory McIlroy should never be allowed in front of a camera again. With the proviso – unless he was playing ...

Wieden+Kennedy London is obviously making a late run to hang on to its crown as our Agency of the Year. The public perception is, mostly, that it’s been grappling with the herculean task of trying to turn round giant client ...

WPP is merging its 24/7 Real Media business, which represents online publishers, with its own invention, Xaxis, which buys ad impressions in bulk and then, supposedly, targets them at the right audience. At least that’s what I think it does. ...

I’ve read quite a few funny articles about the Christmas barrage coming at us from all directions. The most common grump is the start time of the advertising; it began in earnest during November. I understand retailers who sell goods ...

For 30 years now America’s PNC Bank has been calculating its Christmas Price Index, the current price of each of the gifts in the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ carol. This year Deutsch New York has produced an online contest where ...

It’s not been a good couple of weeks for Havas CEO David Jones with Havas in the UK losing the big Santander banking account to WCRS and now the rather larger global Volvo account shipping out from Havas network Arnold ...

Giant drugs company GSK, some of whose employees in China have been detained by the authorities for allegedly bribing doctors hard on the heels of a $3bn fine in the US for misleading marketing, has landed its big feet in ...