By Staff on February 7, 2012
In the first of an occasional series Nick Lawson, CEO EMEA of WPP-owned media planning and buying giant MediaCom, picks his Desert Island Ads – ones which have influenced his career and the way he thinks of advertising. It’s a sad admission but I think of ads in much the same way that I think [...]
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By Stephen Foster on June 15, 2011
St Luke’s founder David Abraham has done a sterling job since taking over from Andy Duncan at UK broadcaster Channel 4 but he’s making a right pig’s ear of the farrago over comedian Frankie Boyle’s joke about celeb Katie Price’s disabled eight year-old son Harvey. Inter alia Boyle said that Price (aka Jordan) needed a [...]
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By Stephen Foster on January 31, 2011
This could get nasty, two neighbours in London’s Great Portland Street (formerly the capital’s rag trade area, now home to agencies and the like) are battling in the European courts over the use of the rather unglamorous name ‘Dave.’ Dave the marketing consultancy is now owned by Peter Scott’s Engine Group mini-marcoms operation but when [...]
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