Leagas Delaney CEO Fergus Hay is leaving the agency suddenly. A statement from the agency reads as follows: Leagas Delaney announces that after three years Fergus Hay, London CEO, is leaving the agency with immediate effect following a Board-level investigation ...

Tango HHCL 1992. I can’t believe it’s almost 30 years since the orange man ran onto TV screens across Britain to slap a Tango drinker’s face. It feels way more contemporary than that. It turned everything on its head. Not ...

Grey London has won Very Group from long-serving agency St Luke’s. Very Group is owned by the warring Barclay Brothers. Its brands include Littlewoods.com. Very Group CMO Carly O’Brien says: “We want to be the number one destination for shoppers ...

Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May recently criticised the world response to tackling coronavirus, highlighting the lack of international collaboration and calling for a “collective international view.” On a more local level, the ad industry has shown itself capable of ...

Clearly depends which way you look at these things. Ad forecaster WARC headlines its latest numbers: Brands cut $50 billion from global adspend in wake of COVID-19. Ouch. Then we read: Global adspend to fall 8.1% in 2020. Which, in ...

People are flooding online: 40 per cent of new users are said to be children (which presumably means means that there are lots of old new users too). So WPP is partnering with “kidtech” privacy platform SuperAwesome SuperAwesome’s tools include ...

Publicis Italy has made a pretty good fist of Heineken – must be all that time they’re spending on Marcel – and Heineken is trying to do its bit in the crisis. Basically by expressing the simple truth: life at ...

Which ads would have been the big winners at Cannes this year – had there been one? Apple’s AirPods effort from TBWA\Media Arts Lab with Pulse films and Framestore won The One Club’s top ADC award, a “black cube.” TBWA ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital is still on the takeover trail (or ‘merger” as it prefers to say) amid the crisis, with the addition of LATAM data and analytics consultancy Digodat. In a somewhat jumpy M&A market S4 reminds us ...