If Mark Read was hoping to bury WPP’s bad news – 3500 redundancies – by announcing it on the day of the Brexit vote, he was disappointed. Theresa May might have ducked out of her big challenge on December 11th, ...

I have to admit I was quite sniffy when I saw this was a Christmas ad for Uber Eats and Coca-Cola. Christmas isn’t the healthiest of times, but usually there’s plenty of home cooked food and some tangerines to offset ...

It’s probably not the easiest time to become president of the IPA, with agency brands dying off and agency leaders clearing off in the wake of #MeToo, but Nigel Vaz has stepped up to take on the role in March. ...

BBC One’s Christmas ad is a festive tear-jerker in which a mother and her teenage son ditch their responsibilities to spend a lost afternoon of quality time together. Made by BBC Creative, it tells the story beautifully and avoids schmaltz ...

WPP CEO Mark Read is continuing his radical clean up of the group by merging J Walter Thompson with Wunderman, the digital agency where he was global CEO for nearly four years. JWT’s obituary was written a while ago, and ...

CALM, the male suicide prevention charity, is getting a lot of support from the media world. That’s probably not a coincidence given the overwork, lack of job security, and blokey culture that permeates the industry. Adam&eve/DDB’s Project 84 campaign for ...

At one of the increasingly popular “fireside chat” events to lure big names on stage, John Hegarty, founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, was in typically opinionated mood as he talked to the audience at Connect London. “People go on about ...

The John Lewis Christmas ad is arguably the biggest moment of adland’s festive season. so we thought we’d look at it from two viewpoints. Emma Hall writes: If you have a sense of déjà vu with this year’s John Lewis ...

Jerry Buhlmann has surprised the industry by quitting his role as CEO of Dentsu Aegis. He is only 59, which is young compared to John Wren at Omnicom (66) and Michael Roth at Interpublic (72). We also know that Buhlmann ...