Jonathan Smith is CEO and founder of Hot Pot China, a China-focused digital and commercial consultancy. Desert Island (China) ads China is set to be the largest retail market by the end of this year. The opportunity is vast, and ...

I’m really looking forward to my year as President of the 2019 Sharks festival (September 18-21).. It’s funny to think that just over a year ago, my relationship with advertising awards was so very different, I’d genuinely fallen out of ...

Customer engagement agency TMW Unlimited has won Travelzoo’s UK CRM account following a competitive pitch. Travelzoo, a kind of club for travellers, has more than five million members in the UK and 25 offices worldwide. Travelzoo publishes offers from more ...

Publicis Groupe has acquired yet another agency, US based and female-led Rauxa, described as a full service marketing agency. In this case that seems to mean direct marketing or maybe CRM. Unusually it will sit within Publicis Media. Publicis CEO ...

Looks like comedian Rob Brydon is going to have to give up all that free travel, food and booze courtesy of P&O Cruises. P&O is reported to be reviewing its ad account at agency Founded, which launched ‘This is the ...

I started in this industry the very week, as it happens, that Google launched. It was 1998 and the great digital disruption was underway. Agencies were already on the back foot, deep in battle with the research companies like Millward ...

More Rugby World Cup, this time from tournament broadcaster ITV’s ITV Creative ‘Rise to the World Cup’ – featuring some Japanese-style animation. Take it the games are on quite early, which presumably means pubs will be open for breakfast. OK ...

Out of Home is becoming an all-singing and dancing medium in the digital age and UK digital specialist Ocean Outdoor seems to be becoming a sports broadcaster as well, using its giant screens including London’s Piccadilly Lights. Already this year ...

Publicis Groupe has retained the Novartis global media account, reckoned to be worth $600m. The Swiss pharma giant was previously handled by Starcom and now Starcom is combining with Publicis’ new data firm Epsilon in an entity called NovartisONE2. WPP, ...