It’s that time of year again. Cannes. The advertising Olympics is just around the corner and, like the Tokyo version, it’s going ahead a year late. And as if judging Cannes wasn’t tough enough with those incredibly long hours often ...

WPP’s GroupM is forecasting 24% growth for the UK ad market in 2021 – up from its previous forecast of 12.4% – a rate of growth its president of business intelligence Brian Weiser describes as “astonishing.” Weiser (left) told Campaign: ...

Rosie Bardales, global executive creative director at BETC, and member of the jury of the 2021 Cannes Lions in the Film category on what we can expect this year from this year’s (virtual sadly) International Festival of Creativity from June ...

Stephen Barnes is co-founder and ECD of multi-discipline agency Collective. Desert Island Ads If this was a real desert island, you can guarantee I would have packed too much. 5 pairs of shorts, 3 ‘spare’ phone chargers, perhaps even a ...

The last year has been horrific for many. For other, luckier souls the abiding memory will be of relentless monotony, albeit borne in the national interest. Remember when ‘Zoom’ was just a reliable wedding floor-filler? Even the ‘basket of goods’ ...

I’d be fairly handy on a desert island. As a child I used to catch fish with a hand line and cook them on a fire in the woods. On one occasion, referencing a well-thumbed 1960s edition of Mrs Beeton’s ...

Publicis Groupe keeps winning business. One of its media agencies Starcom has won online marketplace Vinted while umbrella operation Publicis Media has won chocolate maker Lindt & Sprüngli across Europe. At the same time former CEO Muarice Levy (left) has ...

The music industry is undergoing all sorts of upheavals in the digital era – Spotify’s founder is even trying to buy Arsenal – and there’s a new major player on the B2B stage: Songtradr, which claims to be the world’s ...

Brothers & Sisters has won challenger online estate agency Strike after a competitive pitch. B&S is tasked with creating a new brand idea and ad campaign to run across multiple channels, aimed at challenging the UK market leader Purple Bricks. ...