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The AAR (Advertising Agency Register as was) has ranked VCCP as its top new business agency for the seventh straight year. VCCP, now affiliated to the WPP empire, won 21 pieces of business from all sources in 2017 including Britvic, ...

UK retailers and agencies do family-centric “dramas” in their advertising, the French are a little more adventurous. Here’s Rosapark for Monoprix, hymning the benefits of hands-free delivered shopping, via “the worst song in the world.” Very good but… Are you ...

Adam&eveDDB’s #TrollingIsUgly campaign provides a graphic demonstration of the potential effects of cyber bullying. Body positive campaigner and social media influencer Chessie King stripped down to her underwear, put up a video on Instagram, and let the trolls do the ...

The recent finding that revenue from digital screens now account for more than half of the value of Out of Home advertising confirms what people in the industry have felt for a while – digital is quickly transforming the medium. ...

Believe it or not, it’s spring in the UK although you wouldn’t know it as you peer through the chilly gloom. RB agency Havas London is reminding us though in this ingenious small number (ads so seem to be getting ...

Those tectonic plates in adland are indeed shifting and conclusive evidence is that The&Partnership’s Johnny Hornby won’t be partying at Cannes on a yacht this year. Many of those who’ve enjoyed JH’s hospitality in the past are still mopping their ...

Wieden+Kennedy’s back on the case for language learning app Babel, this time with an alien suffering the same fate as we Brits do when we’re trying to converse abroad. Well why can’t they all speak English? Not sure if the ...

We may find out the result of the WPP board’s investigation into CEO Sir Martin Sorrell next week according to sources – Sorrell has been accused of “personal misconduct” by someone – although that still seems pretty unlikely with a ...

Here are some supposed highlights from Faceboook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first day of testimony before the US Congress following the Cambridge Analytica data mis-use revelations (87m users had their information hacked). Not much new here from a contrite Zuckerberg although ...