The AAR (Advertising Agency Register as was) has ranked VCCP as its top new business agency for the seventh straight year. VCCP, now affiliated to the WPP empire, won 21 pieces of business from all sources in 2017 including Britvic, ...

UK retailers and agencies do family-centric “dramas” in their advertising, the French are a little more adventurous. Here’s Rosapark for Monoprix, hymning the benefits of hands-free delivered shopping, via “the worst song in the world.” Very good but… Are you ...

Believe it or not, it’s spring in the UK although you wouldn’t know it as you peer through the chilly gloom. RB agency Havas London is reminding us though in this ingenious small number (ads so seem to be getting ...

Those tectonic plates in adland are indeed shifting and conclusive evidence is that The&Partnership’s Johnny Hornby won’t be partying at Cannes on a yacht this year. Many of those who’ve enjoyed JH’s hospitality in the past are still mopping their ...

We may find out the result of the WPP board’s investigation into CEO Sir Martin Sorrell next week according to sources – Sorrell has been accused of “personal misconduct” by someone – although that still seems pretty unlikely with a ...

Lucky Generals has signed up diva-in-chief Mariah Carey for Hostelworld and, as you’d expect, they’re keen to get their money’s worth. So we have Mariah turning up at its “luxe” Barcelona outpost, complete with regulation NFL-sized team of flunkies. At ...

Agency focussed M&A more than doubled in the first quarter of 2018 compared to 2017 (100 deals worth $4.6bn against 94 worth $2bn in 2017) according to marketing consultancy R3 – but just 14 per cent of deals were done ...

For decades now Sony has been producing seemingly superior TVs, only to have them copied by lower cost rivals. Here’s another the (wait for it) Sony Bravia 4K HDR OLED AF8 television range. No idea what OLED signifies but Sony ...

The Times reckons that internal candidates to succeed Sir Martin Sorrell as CEO of WPP are being interviewed by the board, a board which some reckon contains one or more directors who want rid of the WPP founder. Sorrell (below) ...