Analysis

The late Paul Simons was a former chairman and CEO of Ogilvy London. Here’s his take (from July) on new Ogilvy global boss Andy Main. The news about Andy Main (below) being seduced by WPP to leave Deloitte’s and take ...

A UK Out of Home industry collaboration pooling the results from 65 campaigns between March and September 2020, reveals that advertisers who continued to invest in Out of Home benefitted from strong performance including an average +51% shift in ad ...

Paul Simons, my business partner and a shareholder in MAA, has died at 72 after a long illness. Paul was one of the leading figures in the wave of advertising agencies that revolutionised the UK industry and also had a ...

Not that there’s anything wrong with it but this was the first from agency adam&eve (before it became adam&eveDDB) back in 2009. Doubt that either agency or client expected the annual campaign to be such a big thing. But this ...

So is WPP’s decision to merge Grey, one of its big creative agencies bought for $1.52bn back in 2004, a big deal? Or, as Ad Age put it in one of its inimitable headlines, just a case of: “WPP retires ...

Cephas Williams, founder of the Black British Network, has launched an inspirational campaign, which features on Out of Home (OOH) digital screens throughout November and December, publicising his moving Letter to his son Zion written in the wake of the ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital motors on happily through the pandemic, reporting Q3 2020 revenue of £86.4m (up 13% on the same period of last year) and gross profit of £75.3m (up 23%.) All this without the benefit of BMW’s ...

We can all do with some support right now and here’s Wieden+Kennedy chair Susan Hoffman on the importance of same, for the One Club for Creativity. Reading a letter from Dan Wieden 20 or so years ago when Susan seems ...

Stephen Page is a co-founder of health and wellness communications agency Page & Page. Desert Island Ads What did you say the challenge was again? Three to five advertisements I like. I wonder if you know? I don’t actually like ...