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What does “business transformation” actually mean? Especially when an ag agency group gets its mitts around it. Daimler’s former head of “digital agency model and data activation” (whatever that means) Conrad Fritzsch is moving to Publicis Emil, Publicis Groupe’s new ...

Is Amazon sustaining the ad business single-handed? Audible audio books is yet another Amazon company (those with long memories might recall that Amazon began as an online bookseller) and here’s a lively effort from Fold7, substituting your imagination for all ...

Gaming seems to be taking over much of the world – but you wouldn’t know it if you’re not a gamer, it’s a closed universe. EA Sports claims it’s moved “from visual to visceral” with these two new offerings and, ...

Luxury fashion platform Farfetch has appointed Anomaly and Mediacom to run its global business from their London offices. A new integrated campaign will start rolling out in September, emphasising Farfetch’s positioning — it can access treasured pieces from boutiques all ...

Wieden+Kennedy London is making redundancies in the wake of Covid-19 and also the sudden loss of its high-spending Three account. At the same time (and unrelated it’s said) London ECD Iain Tait is leaving as is CSO Ben Armistead. Long-serving ...

Here’s an ingenious sustainability wheeze from Virtue, the Vice-owned agency, for McDonald’s Austria: converting its former yellow and red striped plastic straws (they’ve been dumped in favour of paper) into a limited edition swimwear collection. McDonald’s Austria marketing director Benedikt ...

A TV ad ban for the gambling industry looms with a committee of MPs pushing for one and the return of Premier League football, the driver behind the recent growth of gambling via bets on mobiles, has pushed betting even ...

Big creative reviews may be thin on the ground in Covid-19 but one of the UK’s biggest has concluded with VCCP winning Walkers, the big Pepsico-owned snack brand, in competition with up-and-coming agency Uncommon. VCCP, now largely private equity owned, ...

The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has formed a Global sourcing Board that aims to drive a shift from savings to value. Its 12 members, some from the world’s biggest advertisers, have produced a new paper: Project Spring: Revolutionising the ...