We thought another bidder might be circling M&C Saatchi as it batted off Vin Murria’s takeover bid but didn’t expect it to be Next 15, the £1.2bn tech based agency group that is currently absorbing £81m Engine Creative. Next 15 ...

No escape from New Commercial Arts this week, the agency founded by adam&eve alumni James Murphy and David Golding with Ian Heartfield from BBH and Rob Curran from Wunderman Thompson, has won Nando’s, made an excellent debut for Alzheimer’s Society ...

Many thanks to the many readers – including companies – who have supported MAA over the past two years via your donations. We’ve been overwhelmed by the support, from one-off to regular donations, and it’s been a real boon in ...

Katy Perry has taken on the not inconsiderable task of replacing Snoop Dogg as the face and voice of Just Eat, the first big campaign since Just East absorbed rival Taleaway.com. Delivery services are massive businesses these days although the ...

Deputy chairman Vin Murria’s bid for M&C Saatchi – with her quoted tech vehicle AdvancedAdvT – is turning nasty with M&C’s directors labelling her latest joint bid “derisory.” The Murria camp’s latest bid and first formal offer (mostly shares) values ...

Nice to see a bit of classic animation – with some modern twists, like an iPhone – by BBH for Weetabix and its long-running ‘Have you had yours?’ campaign. This time, though, it’s the wolf who’s been fortified. Weetabix head ...

Coca-Cola appointing WPP as its lead agency for just about everything last year was probably just about the most significant account move and the mighty resources of WPP’s newly-minted Open X team have now produced a new global “platform” for ...

London newbie New Commercial Arts is hitting its stride now, a blockbuster with Judi Dench for MoneySuperMarket and now its Alzheimer’s Society debut in Dementia Action Week. The line is: “It’s not called getting old it’s getting ill,” underlining that ...

Someone’s come up with a scheme to abate the cost of living crisis at last – not the hapless UK government or the Bank of England (both of whom seem to be sleepwalking into a recession) – but MoneySuperMarket and ...