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S4Capital’s share price headed sharply downwards this morning following a good kicking in the influential UK Sunday Times yesterday (subscription required.) ‘How chaotic accounting engulfed Sir Masrtin Sorrell’s S4 Capital empire’ was the headline, referring to the essentially book-keeping problems ...

Coca-Cola appointing WPP as its lead agency for just about everything last year was probably just about the most significant account move and the mighty resources of WPP’s newly-minted Open X team have now produced a new global “platform” for ...

First we get Judi Dench in NCA’s MoneySuperMarket ad, and now two other fine British actors — Helen Mirren and Richard E Grant — are in VCCP’s new campaign for Cadbury. Mirren and Grant’s appearances are only fleeting, and the ...

London newbie New Commercial Arts is hitting its stride now, a blockbuster with Judi Dench for MoneySuperMarket and now its Alzheimer’s Society debut in Dementia Action Week. The line is: “It’s not called getting old it’s getting ill,” underlining that ...

Someone’s come up with a scheme to abate the cost of living crisis at last – not the hapless UK government or the Bank of England (both of whom seem to be sleepwalking into a recession) – but MoneySuperMarket and ...

This one’ll cheer you up. The&Partnership for British Gas Energy Trust promoting its helpline for people who can’t afford to keep the heating on as energy prices (including British Gas charges) go through the roof. A hostage to fortune if ...

Snapchat is redoubling its efforts to take on Facebook-owned Instagram and TikTok and has hired former Wieden+Kennedy star Colleen DeCourcy as its chief creative officer (CCO.) Former W+K CCO and president DeCourcy (below) says: “At Snap I’ve met a thoughtful ...

Engine Creative, still waiting to see what it’s going to be called under Next 15 ownership, retained the Green Flag roadside assistance business recently although Churchill departed to join Direct Line at Saatchi & Saatchi. Now it’s back with a ...

You have to hand it to the7stars (named after a pub), Britain’s biggest media independent and seemingly capable of spreading its wings too. Now it’s won Cunard’s combined UK creative and media business without a pitch, creative from Alpha Century ...