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Here’s an ad that knowns its target audience: anyone who has ever felt defeated by the prospect of DIY. Which has got to be most of us. WCRS breathes new life into the “You can do it when you B&Q ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4C business empire hinges on creative production agency MediaMonks, hailed as a way for clients to skip creative agencies by cutting to the quick quicker. It’s signed up Apple subsidiary FileMaker so that’s a pretty good ...

The UK Effie Awards, which purport to reward ad effectiveness, has announced its winners and they are: Aldi and John Lewis tied as UK Marketers of the Year; adam&eveDDB (John Lewis’ agency) as Agency of the Year and Lidl and ...

By James Harries, analyst WPP, the world’s largest marketing group, shares hit a five-year low in July amidst continued uncertainty following the departure of long-term chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell, as well as the uncertainty of GDPR. Former COO Mark ...

The UK has a big new multi-media player, Global Media & Entertainment, the owner of Capital, LBC and Classic FM radio stations, is buying out of home companies Primesight and Outdoor Plus. Primesight turns over about £60m with Outdoor Plus ...

WPP digital network VML is expanding apace in Europe and ECD Harsh Kapadia has raided some leading creative agencies including noted independents for four new hires, all women. They are senior creative team Eve Kemanes and Andreea Nedelcu, senior copywriter ...

Anyone old enough to remember the notorious “gnomes of Zurich,” the Swiss bankers blamed by Labour politicians for a string of economic disasters? Well the gnomes wear slick suits these days and lots of them work for giant Swiss bank ...

It’s always good to see some nice new posters and Atomic has produced such a campaign for the Royal Opera House in London, using what it claims is a revolutionary new imaging process that allows photographers, in this case Giles ...

Is something up at JWT? Everyone is expecting a big announcement from new WPP CEO Mark Read soon and, among the favoured candidates is a merger of one of WPP’s creative networks with a digital one, either Wunderman or VML. ...