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Omnicom Media Group’s Drum agency has been appointed by B&Q owner Kingfisher as its global social content agency. Kingfisher also owns Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot and Koctas. Kingfisher has been shutting stores in France and pulling out of some other ...

Newly-formed political entity The Independent Group, consisting of a handful of Remain-supporting refugee MPs from Labour and the Tories, hasn’t exactly got off to a flying start. For the time being at least it’s known as Change UK as the ...

Nice work if you can get it: WPP CEO Mark Read is expected to garner £3.7m in pay and bonuses for 2018 (a big chunk being a bonus for his former role as joint COO.) While ousted boss (and WPP ...

Sophie Russell is a senior planner at Brave. Desert Island Ads At Brave we are drawn to the braver ads. Not just brave through wacky creativity, but brave enough to challenge a category and comms status quo. Bravery is to ...

If you haven’t taken an artfully staged flat lay shot of your food before you eat it, then you haven’t really experienced the meal. So it goes for a generation of foodie Instagrammers who think nothing of holding up proceedings ...

Droga5 London, like its big brother in NYC, believes in going the extra mile and it’s certainly doing that for new client Barclaycard. Barclaycard targets small businesses, among others, and it’s introducing a Repayment Calculator – ostensibly to helps its ...

A Reddit post telling the story of an agency that got its client fired was picked up by Adweek’s Agency Spy. The anonymous writer says he works at a “big” agency, and his story involves the agency’s biggest client, who ...

Thought that picking up women on buses was frowned upon in the Me Too era, not so by Bancontact’s Payconiq mobile banking app in a new campaign from Boondoggle. Old habits die hard, even in app-driven mobile banking. More diverting ...

Bartle Bogle Hegarty has created a new campaign for Refuge to raise awareness of the stastic that 90 per cent of domestic abuse is witnessed by children. The short film shows a boy covering his eyes and counting, but he’s ...