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What used to be one of the biggest jobs in London’s adland is now vacant – Ogilvy UK CEO Michael Frohlich is leaving to return to PR as EMEA CEO at Interpublic-owned Weber Shandwick. Frohlich (below) made waves when, on ...

Vice Media Group has bought creative consultancy PLTFRMR to merge it with its creative agency Virtue. In doing so it adds two heavy hitters: Chris Garbutt, a former global CCO of TBWA Worldwide and Colin Mitchell, former SVP global marketing ...

New partnership expands automated and data-driven OOH access to advertisers The Talon Group, the leading global independent Out of Home (OOH) agency, has announced a partnership between its US, international and German businesses with Hivestack, a global adtech leader in ...

Facebook is reviewing its estimated $750m global media account – not a surprise really as most big advertisers seems to do this these days every two years or so. Facebook has only recently emerged as a big advertiser, using advertising ...

We all know by now that WPP is forging ahead as a “commerce company,” can the marketing giant still hack it creatively? Here’s its first effort for P&G Japanese skincare brand SK-11, one of seven short films (not that short, ...

Property site Rightmove seems to be aiming at a new market – renters. Quite unusual in property-obsessed Great Britain but maybe property-owning has lost some of its lustre as thousands of leaseholders face ridiculous bills to fireproof “their” properties when, ...

Speculation about a merger between French-owned marketing groups Publicis and Havas has re-emerged following a French media report. Havas pre-dates even the venerable Publicis although it’s now owned by Vivendi, controlled by French tycoon Vincent Bolloré (left.) Son Yannick runs ...

The Royal Ascot race meeting takes place from June 15 so, presumably, there’ll be some racegoers there. It’s the occasion when the British establishment is on parade of course – most notably with the Queen’s horse-drawn procession down the course ...

London design and communications agency Missouri has won Honda Motor Europe’s below-the-line account after a pitch. The brief includes work on Honda’s new HR-V hybrid. Honda is Missouri’s first auto account. Missouri creative director and founder Stuart Wood says: “We ...