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Emma de la Fosse is chief creative officer of Digitas UK My tips for Cannes can be divided into two parts. We’ll continue to see a continuation of the trend towards brands taking a stance on moral or political issues ...

Tenthavenue, the WPP Out of Home and experiential holding company based in New York, has gone in CEO Mark Read’s ongoing reorganisation of Sir Martin Sorrell’s rambling WPP empire. Tenth Avenue was headed by Rupert Day, then a rising star ...

Matthieu Elkaim is CCO of Ogilvy Paris. Top Tips for Cannes Skittles – Broadway the Rainbow Skittles is impressive by its consistency through time. The brand constantly reinvents itself and challenges the conventions. This kind of brand gives value to ...

Advertising seems to be a lot more fun in France than elsewhere, notably the dear old UK. Monoprix is promoting its fast check out service (via an app inevitably) so agency Rosapark is harking back to “Humankind’s first queue” (jumper.) ...

US creative high flyer Liz Taylor is the new CCO of Leo Burnett Worldwide (based in Chicago) and, just as significantly, US creative lead of owner Publicis Communications. Publicis Communications’ global CCO is Nick Law who joined a couple of ...

Everybody thinks the biggest advertising event of the year is the Super Bowl. With 98.2 million people tuning in, 30 second ad space sold for $5.25m. What could possibly top this? One word – Eurovision. Although historically regarded as a ...

The BBC is under the cosh in some quarters for its pursuit of ‘Yoof,’ notably through relentlessly plugging its new Sounds app. It’s showing all the games from the Women’s World Cup in France this summer and to plug it ...

US investment giant BlackRock has appointed DDB globally to market its iShares product – a basket of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) – with adam&eveDDB in charge in London. DDB Mexico has Latin America. A&E has plenty of experience with finance – ...

We thought Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay was yesterday’s news as he’s now ensconced at “better, faster, cheaper” S4 Capital. At WPP he controversially earned buckets including £72m in 2016. But now two shareholder advisors, Glass Lewis and ISS, are urging ...