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VCCP serves up debut for Barclays’ Wimbledon partnership
Brands are getting savvier about sponsorship, as we saw from LVMH’s Grand Prix-winning Olympics partnership, and here VCCP have found…
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Serviceplan brings WhatsApp chat to life for Tourism Abu Dhabi
Cannes’ Independent Network of the Year, Serviceplan Group – the outfit behind Grand Prix-winning “Price Packs” for retailer Penny –…
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Brave Bison buys Mark Ritson’s MiniMBA training business
The marketing world’s favourite pundit Mark Ritson has sold his MiniMBA business to marcoms group Brave Bison. Ritson becomes a…
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Global regulators up stakes in murky media marketplace
The US Federal Trade Commission has conditionally cleared Omnicom’s proposed merger with IPG by accepting a consent order that prevents…
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And here’s another AI generated masterpiece….
Are your ears bleeding from talk of AI? Clients are excited about it anyway, judging by the chatter from Cannes.…
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James Kirkham: from Cannes to Tehran, and our split screen era
The Cannes Lions festival has always been a reliable mirror for the advertising industry. Delegates wearing sunglasses on panels, sitting…
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Jane Austin: Adland is stuck in an AI-sized bubble – plus a memory of someone who put people before expediency
The big lesson from Cannes? The industry’s living in an AI-generated dream world A fascist president is wreaking global havoc…
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Media agency pioneer Dominic Proctor dies
Dominc Proctor, one-time president of WPP’s GroupM and a man who served in the front line as media agencies took…
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Alexandra Jardine: final thoughts on Cannes; entertainment reigns while ads end in basement
It was somehow symbolic of the prominence of old-fashioned creativity at Cannes this year that a talk by Unilever and…
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