Why don’t we ever like Vodafone ads? Over the years a succession of capable marketing execs and top of the range agencies have had a crack at it and the ads are always – well, not on a par with ...

Adam&eveDDB is good at introducing some tabasco sauce into the syrupy recipe of Christmas ads – remember Harvey Nichols’ ‘Sorry I spent it on myself’ – and it’s done so again with these two new confections for Waitrose. Spot on, ...

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is reckoned to be on the brink of landing his second big acquisition, US-based programmatic advertising company MightyHive. MightyHive is run by former Google exec Peter Kim and advises clients on their digital media activities ...

Might Sir Martin Sorrell (below), now installed as chairman of S4 Capital, the owner of content agency MediaMonks, be contemplating a bid for some or all of Kantar? Kantar, of course, is the data division of WPP, the company he ...

Bookseller Barnes & Noble has a new ad agency, Havas North America, and the retailer is going into battle against Amazon again, showing how its staff can find you the right book. A blindingly obvious offer from a proper bookseller ...

Sometimes too much exposure to Christmas ads and the faux emotions associated with the festivities can lead to early signs of brain softening or, at the very least, an Ebenezer-like reaction. So we travel to the bizarre world of Cesar ...

Here’s another shot across the big agency boys’ bows from Canada’s Strategy awards, this time it’s Digital Agency of the Year Rethink mimicking The Big Short by betting against the shares of the big ad holding companies. Buying them in ...

Charity days and months are becoming something of an epidemic (someone will bag a year soon) so if you’re going to essay something as potentially annoying as Christmas Jumper Day (which Save the Children is on December 14) at least ...

Cilla Snowball – who’s been synonymous with AMV BBDO’s success in the UK and is a Dame Commander of the British Empire, no less – is stepping down as Group CEO and chairman of the UK’s largest ad agency after ...