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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 ...

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 ...

Is WPP planning to buy Interpublic? Oh yes it is, say numerous analysts and hacks; oh no we’re not, says WPP, in a series of seemingly firm denials that leave plenty of wriggle room for Sir Martin Sorrell (left) and ...

Simon Francis’s recent article on the car market provides an interesting insight into the big challenge of how we buy our cars; a challenge for the manufacturers and dealers. Some years ago I was asked to write an article for ...

Blimey, not sure I can take all this humility and lovey-doveyness from British banks; at least you knew where you were when the bastards were stealing your money. As ever, though, there’s a cunning plan and this emotion-laden ‘Thankyou’ ad ...

The boss of Ryanair, Mr Michael O’Leary must kiss the Blarney Stone every week as he deals with their latest news. The Blarney Stone is supposed to endow the kisser with the ‘gift of the gab’, something Mr. O’Leary has ...

Is ‘Made of More’ bollox? I may be slow but when the cloud was floating over NY I didn’t get the metaphor/analogy/fairy tale of the brave little cloud with the big heart/golden lining. Then I saw a few print ads ...

WPP appears to have nudged ahead of its two biggest rivals Omnicom and Publicis Groupe (about to be one soon, of course) in the the third quarter of 2013, reporting like for like growth of five per cent (3.8 per ...

Some years ago a company I was involved in produced a number of magazines for JWT EMEA called Out of the Blue: designed to promote JWT, they won two WPP Atticus awards and lots of other plaudits besides. One of ...

***It’s been an interesting old week, for me in the dawning realisation that the bigger companies get (and the more they spend on CRM and all that stuff) the worse they become. We’ve had two members of the energy cartel ...