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BBC Breakfast literally stopped me in my tracks one morning last week. You would be forgiven for thinking that it was a breaking news story that caused me to spin around and stare at the screen, but no – the ...

Even Jamie Oliver isn’t immune to changing consumer trends To many it was a surprise that Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain went into administration this week. But if you look at all the trends in this sector, it was, unfortunately, not ...

Alastair MacCallum (below), currently UK CEO of The&Partnership’s M/Six media agency in which WPP is a minority shareholder, is to be the new UK CEO of Kinetic. Kinetic is WPP’s Out of Home media planning and buying unit, the biggest ...

To 76 Dean Street, Soho, where adam&eveDDB co-founders James Murphy (CEO) and David Golding (CSO) were departing for new pastures – specifically a year’s gardening leave but then a new agency. Among the pearls offered up was Murphy’s (or was ...

We may not love Amazon, although most of us use it, but it’s certainly been a boon for the creative agency business. Here’s Droga5 London again with its ‘great stories stay with you’ campaign for Amazon Prime, the star in ...

It’s quite brave of Carlsberg to tell us that the beer it’s been flogging in the UK all these years – probably the best beer in the world, ho ho – is crap but they are. Now they’ve been doing ...

The global car industry’s in trouble so the biggest car manufacturers are trying all manner of wheezes to spark it into action. One of the problems is that people have finally wised up to the phenomenal depreciation of cars once ...

Vincent Kompany of Manchester City fame is back off to Anderlecht, where he started his career, as player-manager. Good luck to the estimable Kompany but he may find the dual role a touch taxing, as other famous names have before ...

More Gallic flair, this time from the BETC Paris ingenuity factory for Lacoste. “Crocodile Inside” is the somewhat gnomic title. Don’t try this in what’s left of your home. Should engage a jury somewhere or other. Advertising that speaks for ...