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WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell is an interesting choice to debate inequality (total pay packet over the past two years £48m, estimated net worth £200m, and that’s with the big divorce out of the way). But that’s what he was doing ...

Who’s right about Tesco, Terry or Phil? Or are they both wrong? Former CEO Sir Terry Leahy (left) broke his silence on Tesco on last night’s BBC Panorama programme, blaming a ‘failure of leadership’ (Phil Clarke his successor as CEO) ...

FCB Inferno is launching its big new campaign for Sport England tonight, telling the nation’s women that ‘This Girl Can.’ Apparently we’re all obese, or verging on it, these days so FCB Inferno has rounded up a collection of well-upholstered ...

Leo Burnett’s Created for Change unit is launching a new film in the UK – ‘I Saw Your Willy’ – for the NSPCC’s ‘Share Aware’ campaign which tries to help parents with tools and information to help their children enjoy ...

‘Is the Charlie Hebdo shooting linked to Islamic Extremism?’ asks the headline on CNN today. No wonder CNN is losing audience. It’s a rhetorical question – or headline – of course. We all know what the answer is. But what ...

We hesitate to make predictions – although that doesn’t stop us – but one certainty is that 2015 will see yet more ads from the world’s biggest companies telling us in gory emotional detail how and why (occasionally) they have ...

It’s been a turbulent few years for Canadian marcoms company Cossette’s UK businesses ever since the disastrous merger of digital agency Dare and well-regarded creative agency MCBD in 2010. MCBD was absorbed into Dare – a classic case of two ...

I’m beginning to worry about Prince Harry – the party-loving Prince seems to be rather burdened by good works at the moment. What’s going to happen to Bouji’s night club? So here he is launching a Worlds Aids Day campaign ...

240 at the last count, complaining that the ad (below) is, among other things, ‘disrespectful’ and ‘cynical.’ Which is worrying for Sainsbury’s because UK ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a number of ads in recent times ...

Unilever is launching a worldwide corporate TV campaign, via its Project Sunlight sustainability scheme. Project Sunlight has recruited a number of young ‘hunger activists’ to tackle world hunger. This is the US version, in tandem with Feeding America. There’s a ...