Enid Blyton’s Famous Five are back on duty for Great Western Railway and adam&eveDDB, this time with a stage villain to pursue all over the west country. He’s in a taxi, they’re on the train – making the point that ...

You don’t see many of these these days, an extended comedy sketch doubling as advertising, featuring a vicar at an unusual funeral. You expect Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (were they still us) to jump out of the bushes any ...

Publicis Groupe’s new UK country manager Annette King, who left WPP’s Ogilvy Group last year, has announced her new management team and it’s a case of “here come the girls.” Former colleague OgilvyOne CEO Jo Coombs, is COO, OMD Worldwide’s ...

September was pretty good for new ads, first up is WCRS (having a stellar year) for charity Women’s Aid, the latest in a striking campaign. Literally in this clever spin on cinema film classification. ? French agencies appear to have ...

Renault is moving to a bespoke agency consisting of long-term creative partner Publicis and Omnicom’s OMD, brand and marketing head Bastien Schupp has told The Drum. Schupp says he considered bringing the whole caboodle in-house but decided against because of ...

Bob Willott of Marketing Services Financial Intelligence (who knows about these things) reckons Sir Martin Sorrell (below) and his co-investors have made a £38m paper profit on his new venture S4 Capital which reversed into a company called Derriston and ...

The fall-out from the VML/Y&R merger to form VMLY&R has begun and former WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below) has added his two penn’orth, telling MediaPost: “For what it’s worth, I would have branded it Y&R/VML, particularly as the VML ...

It’s VML on top London-wise in the VLMY&R merger (as if the new name didn’t tell us so) with VML’s London MD Amanda Farmer in charge of the new entity with ECD Harsh Kapadia as ECD and Andy Ortner as ...

WPP is indeed merging Y&R with digital network VML to form VMLY&R (bet there was some debate about the name order) to form what it calls a “brand experience agency.” VML’s Jon Cook will be global CEO with Y&R New ...