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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 ...

WPP is still busily acquiring away and also sticking to its strategy of trying to build research operation Kantar into one of the world’s go-to information providers. Now Kantar has bought a majority stake in the UK’s Precise Media Group, ...

Betting firm Betfair is running a new campaign through WCRS, ‘This is Play.’ to tie in with the World Cup and it features, as it would, a giant table tennis-playing octopus. So far so good, why not? But you don’t ...

Sponsors trying to call the shots about the events they support is always a cause for unease – just as it is when advertisers try to influence editorial content. But football’s world government body FIFA is enough to make anyone ...

Cannes Lions has dreamed up yet another award – this time it’s the Cannes Lionheart (no, I’m not making this up) and it’s being awarded to (didn’t you know it) Bono. The ageing U2 frontman will receive the award for ...

The ‘No Borders’ freelance anti-independence campaign in Scotland has certainly ruffled a lot of feathers (see storv and comments), especially the most controversial cinema element. This one saying that Scots will no longer have automatic access to some key NHS ...

Amid all the speculation about (Lord) Sebastian Coe (left) succeeding Lord Patten as chairman of the BBC Trust – the body that’s supposed to oversee the Corporation but doesn’t really – the fact that Coe has another job, executive chairman ...

The vote for Scottish independence or not is looming (September 18) and there’s been a big bust-up in Scotland over a campaign run by some privateering Brits, determined to offer an alternative to the official ‘No’ to independence fronted by ...

Anyone who invested in Interpublic a year ago would be sitting on a more than healthy gain of 26.4 per cent as the marcoms group’s shares hit a year high of $18.82 yesterday, valuing the company at just shy of ...

Is ‘Brand Damage’ a consideration for the City? A financial journalist in the business press last weekend referred to ‘brand damage’ in a piece about M&S (which reported its annual profits today). It is the first time I’ve read this ...