Agencies

We are at the start of what is likely to be the most intense period of rapid digitisation in history. The scale and ease with which we adopted mass remote working and embraced the internet as the go-to channel for ...

Broken Heart Love Affair (there’s a name for George Parker to conjure with) is an eagerly-awaited new Canadian agency: Beverley Hammond, creatives Carlos Moreno, Denise Rossetto and Todd Mackie and CSO Jason Chaney. And its first film certainly makes an ...

Programmatic media buying may be the proverbial snake pit but that doesn’t stop advertisers sleepwalking into it. The algorithms are truly on the march. New numbers from the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) show that 41% of global digital media ...

The New York Times has had many fine hours in its long life but one of its finest may turn out to be its crusade (can you say crusade these days?) for truth in the social media-driven era of fake ...

We’ve just announced our Young Shark Award winner for 2020. Shauna Irani (left) is a (now senior?) copywriter at Ogilvy, Mumbai and has previously been a finalist at the AAAI Cannes Young Lions and Young Spikes India. She tells us ...

You don’t automatically associate Germany with humour but it plays a big part in Hamburg agency Jung von Matt’s varied repertoire. Among the clients are EIS.de, purveyor of sex toys and other delights (who’ve had a pretty good lockdown we ...

MSQ Partners has hired Robert Goodwin from Wunderman Thompson as its first chief data officer. Goodwin’s is a group role working with MSQ agencies including Stack (CRM), The Gate London (creative) and Walk-In Media. At Wunderman Thompson headed data strategy ...

What’s the most annoying ad on mainstream TV (on daytime they’re all annoying.) Kevin Bacon has been annoying us for years in his one-man quest to plug EE but this latest – from Saatchi and Saatchi presumably – takes the ...

WPP has made a key appointment: Kirk McDonald (below) has been hired from WarnerMedia’s Xandr programmatic unit to be the new CEO of media business GroupM in North America. The position has been vacant since Tim Castree left last year. ...