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As House of Commons speaker John Bercow (below) throws a new spanner in Theresa May’s Brexit works – telling her she can’t bring back the same bill three times, which she should have known already – the UK’s TV stations ...

Apparently the original plan was to interview WPP CEO Mark Read on a psychiatrist’s couch, but his team, quite understandably, nuked the idea. The Advertising Week audience was promised it would find out what the “shoes off” Mark Read is ...

You never quite know what you’re going to get from Heimat for German D-I-Y retailer Hornbach but this one’s a winner (we think.) It’s the “real smell of spring,” captured and packaged for a grateful Japanese lady. Hope she’s Japanese ...

Ocean Outdoor is celebrating a successful first year since re-listing on the London stock market with billings growing by 13.7 per cent to nearly £88m, revenue up 15.2 per cent to £62.2m and gross profit growth of 13.8 per cent ...

All advertisers want people to feel good about their brand – and many are the communications embarrassments that ensue. If they can disrupt the competition so much the better. Burger King is rivalling McDonald’s in the proper coffee stakes with ...

Retirement is a comfy option for some but not, perhaps, if you’re a brand. WPP’s big research operation Kantar has announced it’s going to retire all its multifarious sub-brands – including some famous names like Kantar Millward Brown and Kantar ...

This is a rare thing – an ad that really makes you stop and stare. Although with BBH and Audi, the chances are better than most. “Two cars perform a synchronized swimming routine” is the kind of creative idea that ...

Jungle Creations, which owns and operates a number of social media brands internationally, is revamping its in-house ad agency Treehouse as The Wild under the leadership of Dylan Davenport (below), formerly a managing partner at adam&eveDDB. It says The Wild ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has released its first full year results, for 2018, which appear to show the new entity is motoring nicely. S4 includes Dutch (now international) production company MediaMonks, acquired in July last year, and programmatic media ...