Agencies

Accenture Interactive is boosting its already sizeable footprint in Germany with the acquisition of Hamburg’s Kolle Rebbe, ranked as Germany’s seventh-largest ad agency. In January Accenture bought Mackevision, a leading producer of computer-generated imagery and content, while last year it ...

There are signs that some advertisers are prepared to work a bit harder this Christmas, hardly surprising as half the high street in the UK (and the US) is pinning its hopes on a good trading season. So are the ...

Staff exits follow agency restructurings – usually flagged as making companies more client-focussed, nimble and all the rest of it – as surely as night follows day. Now it’s happening at Lake Capital-owned Engine in London with an all-staff consultation ...

I am sometimes asked by friends if I will talk to their children about a job in advertising. I assume this is because they do not want to be doctors, teachers, lawyers or go into the City, and they think ...

We had a slew of very good ads in October (see below, slew doesn’t sound very nice but it’s fine) and here’s another campaign to kick things off in November, trendy sustainable shoe company Allbirds from Anomaly LA. Allbirds are ...

It’s interesting that at a time when creative agencies are fighting for their very existence against the data hordes, October saw a rich crop of ads – all of them, in some way, demonstrating the presence of that rare element: ...

Despite (or perhaps because of) the Brexit house price crash, online estate agents seem to be a booming industry, and one that invests a decent amount in advertising too. Mother has won Yopa, the eighth largest UK estate agent brand, ...

I wonder if new WPP CEO Mark Read is wise to offer a running commentary on the embattled group’s fortunes? He’s at it today in Campaign, musing on merging agencies and WPP’s travails in North America. When he took the ...

Big issues are coming thick and fast today – news reporting courtesy of the New York Times and harassment from timeTo already. Now it’s the small matter of saving the world from our own depredations from the WWF (formerly World ...