Actually they weren’t but that was what Omnicom’s John Wren and Publicis boss Maurice Levy intended in 2013, described here by Stuart Smith. As merger rumours go, this one didn’t come much better. Omnipub. Or more probably Publicom. But let’s ...

You win some, you lose some. And “Jesus” – more correctly known as Forsman & Bodenfors’ “The Good Guys for Christmas” campaign for Unicef proved a big winner at the just-announced 2014 Epica Awards. It picked up two golds, in the ...

Selfishly speaking, there are three good things about the Epica Awards. First, they are the only ones that allow specialist journalists to pass judgement on the ad industry’s creative achievement over the past year – so, no closed-shop cliquishness about ...

Here’s a cute online launch film for the Honda Civic Type R from Wieden & Kennedy. It breaks today. “Cute” might not seem the right word for this 290 bhp turbo-charged boy-racer’s wet dream that achieves 0-62 mph in fewer ...

Nearly three weeks on from the seismic news that Publicis Groupe and Omnicom are to merge and still no end in sight to the discussion of possible permutations. Not, be it noted, among the clients involved – who are mostly ...

Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson have just been granted a decree nisi in the High Court, near finalising their divorce. We thought to mark the occasion with an item that puts former adman Charlieboy in his rightful context: as a ...

WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell has rightly been basking in the reflected glory of the Cannes sunshine. Three successive years, three successive triumphs as holding company of the year at the International Festival of Creativity. It’s the pinnacle moment for ...

You can gauge the ebullience of equity markets these days from the number of obscure digital media companies with dodgy profit and loss accounts that are confidently seeking an IPO (or listing on the stock exchange as it is more ...

It’s a dry, spare document. But beneath the dense, printed undergrowth of Centaur Media’s Interim Management Statement 7464E – out on City desks first thing this morning – lies a rich speculative mulch. Take this, for example: Geoff Wilmot is ...