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Mother has won the big Sky pitch to run what looks like a corporate campaign for the UK satellite broadcaster, just bought by US cable giant Comcast for £30bn. Mother pitched against Sky roster agencies Brothers and Sisters and WCRS ...

OK, that’s enough agonising over the state of adverts and agencies (see today’s other stories), let’s look at a campaign that clearly works – judging by the amount of money Nestle has thrown at it. It’s George Clooney’s latest reprise ...

DDB global CEO Wendy Clark has resigned from Time’s Up, an organisation pledged to combat harassment and inequality at work, after admitting that she engaged former Droga5 CCO as a freelance to work on the ongoing VW global pitch. Royer ...

Master of the soundbite Sir Martin Sorrell is getting his knickers into something of a twist as he roams the world plugging new company S4C and its first buy MediaMonks. To wit, that he’s not interested in “creativity.” Sorrell, of ...

We should be in a new golden era of advertising. If anyone from outside our industry were to stumble across our industry titles, conferences, LinkedIn or Twitter posts, they’d be forgiven for thinking that we’re an industry at war with ...

BETC Paris is rightly renowned for many things but Canal+ is perhaps its signature account. BETC is now ultimately owned by Canal+ parent Vivendi so it’s as well to be on top form. Canal+ has what it calls a new ...

DDB global CEO Wendy Clark (below) finds herself in unexpected and highly disagreeable hot water over the agency’s use of former Droga5 CCO Ted Royer as a freelance on its big global VW pitch. Royer, one of the most high ...

Is Publicis on the way back? It says Q3 organic revenues grew by 1.3 per cent allowing for currency fluctuations and accounting changes with good growth in Europe and a tiny move forward in North America. The US has been ...

New OnDevice study into the “4th Space” reveals significant impact when Full Motion Digital Out of Home is added to social media campaigns, including a 23 per cent uplift in brand metrics and even greater effect on store footfall. An ...