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Ad Age has confirmed what we all suspected, that the so-called FANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Neflix and Google) are increasingly driving advertising, in the US in this case but the same is true around the world surely. Much of the ...

China didn’t win any Gold Lions at Cannes (as far as I can see) but it will. Here’s another ambitious Nike epic, this time from Shanghai courtesy of Wieden+Kennedy and directeur du moment Ian Pons Jewell. We’ve seen it all ...

One of WPP’s better ideas in recent years was to form David, an Ogilvy offshoot named after founder David Ogilvy. But all isn’t well: David Miami MD and global COO Paulo Fogaca is off to join David founders Juan Javier ...

Readers with (very) long memories may recall that in 1987 the Saatchi brothers, then running the world’s biggest agency group, announced their intention to take over the UK’s Midland Bank, one of the biggest at the time. The Midland (now ...

We noted Ed Sheeran’s Instagram praise of Heinz Ketchup a while back and now the unaccountably popular Sheeran is appearing in a full-on ad, by David (presumably the Ogilvy offshoot) from an initiative by Ed. Our man of the people ...

Omnicom Media Group’s Drum has won the global content brief for Jura single malt whisky; another case, perhaps, of the lines blurring between some media agencies and creative agencies. Drum, originally an offshoot of PHD, has always been at the ...

Sir Martin Sorrell is a Burning Man it seems, a keen attendee of the Burning Man festival which takes place in the Black Rock desert in Nevada – in the height of summer. They build it up and burn it ...

Well that didn’t last long. Publicis Groupe CCO and Publicis Communications president Nick Law (below) is reported by Ad Age to be leaving the French-owned marcoms group after just 18 months. To join Apple in an as yet undefined role ...

Some of the Cannes commentators have lamented the lack of jokes this time round: maybe adland is so intent on “purpose” and saving the world that it’s mislaid its sense of humour. Even though much research tells us that ads ...