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Media
Now a gaggle of Mirror editors are arrested in Met Police phone hacking probe
Whatever took them so long? Plod has finally pounced on four miscreant Mirror Group journalists in a dawn raid conducted…
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Analysis
Telegraph’s 7-day tinkering just disguises the internet storm that is killing UK newspaper sales
The newspaper is dead, and the Telegraph’s decision to merge its daily and Sunday titles into a 7-day-a-week operation is…
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Was the great HSBC ad review just the bank’s way of putting a rocket under JWT and WPP?
So, what was all that about? HSBC’s group marketing director Chris Clark (left) calls a review of the “£400m” (actually…
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Man who didn’t cause the world’s most infamous marketing disaster dies
The death late last month of Roy Brown Jr, aged 96, is a timely reminder of that old adage: success…
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Does Nespresso have a clue about who’s to replace departing spokesman George Clooney?
So, Nestlé is to drop George Clooney – Hollywood’s suavest since Cary Grant – as brand ambassador for Nespresso, to…
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Brazil’s high-profile Peralta agency looks for new partners in life after StrawberryFrog
It’s over a year now since Peralta founder and CEO Alexandre Peralta (pictured) expunged (literally so) the StrawberryFrog images sprayed…
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Agencies
Why UK out of home firm Outdoor Plus is remarkably well-connected
There’s a lot going on under the radar in OOH – or posters, as we anciently called it. And I’m…
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Brands caught in the horse meat scandal should remember what happened to Perrier
During the early part of 1990, health officials in North Carolina, USA, made an alarming discovery. Some Perrier bottled mineral…
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