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Bartle Bogle Hegarty in London (and elsewhere) has had a roller coaster time since Publicis bought the lot from its distinguished founders (two knights of the realm included) and other executives. Now it’s being run by a group board headed ...

OOH Capital, the global Out of Home advisory company and consultancy, has extended its global reach with the arrival of three new partners, covering Asia, the United States and Benelux. The new partners are Jim Liu, formerly Zenith Media Head ...

The flip phone is back, but this time it’s by Samsung and it’s a massive improvement on the original noughties version. Working with O2, VCCP has recruited pop group Steps, who were big in those days and still have a ...

Another freelancer has been lured into full time employment this week as Mikey Farr, who was global creative director at Dyson and ECD at Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo, joins 72andSunny Amsterdam as ECD. Farr sounds like an interesting character: he ...

Seems like Dentsu is finally establishing a creative presence in London after years of false starts, and the agency has now hired veteran producer Susie Innes as its first head of production, reporting directly to chief creative officer Simon Lloyd ...

Many thanks to the many readers – including companies – who have supported MAA over the past two years via your donations. We’ve been overwhelmed by the support, from one-off to regular donations, and it’s been a real boon in ...

The UK’s adspend recovery stuttered in Q4 2021 as the Omicron Covid variant sent the country (the medical establishment anyway) into a panic, according to the IPA agency trade body’s latest Bellwether Report. A net balance of +6.1% of companies ...

Gaming giant Activision might be worth $75bn to Microsoft (US regulators might still put a spanner in the works of the agreed deal) but how did Activision rise to these dizzy Heights (despite its much-publicised issues.) Back in the day ...

We all know how banks operate don’t we? Their “secret” is to charge you more (they’re always moaning about free current accounts and the cost of ATMs) and pay you as little as possible, even when interest rates rise. So ...