Analysis

The Guardian, love it or not, is an important pillar of British social and political life but, like its peers, is looking down a dark tunnel just now despite the (relative) success of its fund-raising. Times was when newspapers were ...

BETC Paris is probably feeling cheesed at the moment – seeing longstanding client Peugeot depart to a new Omnicom offering called O.P.EN (where do they get them from?) No doubt it will bounce back (car ads confound most agencies) and ...

The news about Andy Main (below) being seduced by WPP to leave Deloitte’s and take on the captaincy of the good ship Ogilvy is a glimpse of the future for the industry. Across the board historically the top job usually ...

Amazon is the world’s most valuable brand in these straightened times according to research firm Kantar, worth $415bn (up 32 per cent on last year.) The top ten is Amazon; Apple ($352bn + 14%), Microsoft ($326bn + 30%), Google ($323 ...

Changeis something we’ve seen an awful lot of these past months. Unprecedented change that has been unsettling for all of us – as individuals and as professionals. But however unsettling, such times can also be an eye-opening learning opportunity and ...

Milton Glaser, who died last week age 90, is arguably the greatest modern designer – described as the man who “invented the sixties,” certainly many of the images that defined that lively decade. But his most famous comes from 1976, ...

Rewind to 1996 and BBH’s ‘Resignation’ film for Polaroid’s ‘Live for the moment’ campaign. Showing an escape from the perils of corporate life (which BBH may have become rather more aware of since Publicis Groupe bought it.) Directed by Michel ...

Olympus is selling off its camera division after 84 years (it now makes its money from medical equipment) but, in its pre-smartphone heyday, was a famous advertiser – via the great CDP inevitably. CDP was the expert in lining up ...

Cannes Lions has been busily counting up its regional Agencies of the Decade (top award winners) and joining adam&eveDDB (European agency of the decade, below) are VMLY&R Dubai (Middle East and Africa), AlmapBBDO Sao Paulo (LatAm), Colenso BBDO Auckland (Pacific), ...