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Oystercatchers awards show how new business pitches have become an industry inside an industry
Lively London client/agency matchmaker Oystercatchers held its annual awards last night for agency new business teams, awarding gongs for best…
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Great British Bake Off final shows how British brains have turned into a great big squishy Victoria sponge
I do sometimes wonder about the collective intelligence of the British public (I once turned down a job at the…
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RKCR/Y&R gets tough for Commonwealth Games
It’s difficult for the Commonwealth Games these days. For a start, not that many young people know what the Commonwealth…
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Here’s how to reform the BBC following Patten exit
The BBC occupies such a pivotal place in British life – and it’s a growing force worldwide too – that…
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Karmarama launches BBC World War One package
London agency Karmarama is off into the trenches with a film to launch the BBC’s collection of programmes marking the…
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BBC’s new Sherlock series loses the plot
These days the BBC is at least partly a commercial organisation, depending on sales of its hit shows to boost…
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Finance
Can Amazon’s Jeff Bezos works his online magic on the iconic Washington Post?
Should we be surprised that newspapers – in the case one of the world’s most famous the Washington Post –…
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BETC London brands Crossroads girls as Madams
When you think of Soho, London, what comes to mind? Some of civilisation’s oldest professions: such as advertising and, er,…
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Comedian and former ‘Phirips’ radio campaign ad star Mel Smith dies at 60
Comedian and director Mel Smith who has died at 60 was a force in advertising too back in the day,…
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