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The huge clearout at at Dentsu Aegis Network (the media arm of the Japanese ad conglomerate) continues apace – it’s looking rather like like a purge – as US CEO Nick Brien (below) departs to be replaced by Jacki Kelly ...

Designer potato brand Albert Bartlett has got a brand new bag – with 20 per cent less plastic – and it’s the hero of its Christmas/holiday campaign, to the tune of James Brown’s seminal song. So we have some more ...

Christmas is to UK adland what the Super Bowl is to the US; big brands, big budgets, and the once-a-year feeling that the press (and maybe even the public) cares about what it makes. Brands spend big at Christmas, but ...

It doesn’t get any better for scandal- hit M&C Saatchi – half the board resigned this week including founder Lord Saatchi – and now the Financial Conduct Authority (an M&C client ironically) is taking a look at its public pronouncements ...

Boris Johnson remains as UK prime minister – with a stonking majority which even he probably didn’t expect, at least he says he didn’t but you never know with Boris – following a campaign quite unlike any we’ve seen. In ...

Any initiative that aims to raise the standard of online advertising has to be admired, whether or not it achieves that aim. This goes beyond political advertising, currently a major point of discussion. One wider problem, however, is advertising fraud, ...

It’s an important day in the country’s calendar and there’s also a General Election. So let’s get on with our final choices of the outstanding denizens of adland. Network of the Year There are three candidates for Network of the ...

WPP CEO Mark Read (and, no doubt, his dealmaking COO Andrew Scott) haven’t broken up for the Christmas holidays yet, they’ve just sold the key talent and technology platforms used on the business to Walmart-owned Sam’s Club. Last month it ...

By Jimmy Robinson After overtaking Baidu’s ad revenue recently, ByteDance has seen astonishing and rapid growth, with some reports stating ad revenue across all platforms owned by ByteDance in Q1 and Q2 2019 has reached 50 billion RMB (approximately 7 ...