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Women’s Aid – the domestic abuse charity – is raising awareness of coercive control with an ad by Engine that appears in the new issue of Vanity Fair. The graphic pattern reflects the patterns of manipulation suffered by abused women. ...

Dettol’s ‘Handwash Challenge,’ originally destined for India, now has over nine billion views on TikTok (nine billion – and one now, sort of.) And veteran soul singer Gloria Gaynor is doing her bit. Who said social media was no good ...

One senior agency exec currently working from home (and doubtless finding there isn’t that much to do without meetings) says he thinks the hit to agencies from Covid-19 will be “unprecedented.” We don’t know yet what the hit to adspend ...

Wunderman Thompson has bagged one of the grandest fromages in the Interpublic media set-up, Caroline Foster Kenny, who’s global president client solutions and executive chairman and CEO of Mediabrands in the UK and Ireland. At Wunderman Thompson she’ll be chief ...

In the small print of S4 Capital’s 2019 results announcement it helpfully reminds us that WPP (the company Sir Martin Sorrell founded 35 years ago and left abruptly in 2018) is now worth less than £6bn (£5.86bn this morning), compared ...

How is Sir Martin Sorrell’s new company S4 Capital doing in these trying times? Its top line figures remain spectacular: It now bills £455.8m with reported revenue up 292 per cent year on year from £54.8m to £215m, gross profit ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Agency land is full of stories about colleagues pulling together and bravely supporting each other through the shock of home working and a lack of access to the ...

“In the name of play” seems to be Fanta’s new platform (quite why is unclear) and its new campaign from 72andSunny Amsterdam offers “Idiots Are Amazing,” which is kind of playful. As here, based on a round-up of YouTube, er, ...

Diageo has reportedly given its global media account to Omnicom Media Group’s PHD, another biggie for what was once the holding company’s second-string media agency. The other contenders were Carat and Publicis Media. Diageo is a big spender (a minimum ...