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There are lots of current reasons why we won’t see an ad like this again. There’s another in the series that would have absolutely no chance. From Lowe Howard-Spink in 1992. The trouble with funny is you almost inevitably end ...

Amazon is the world’s most valuable brand in these straightened times according to research firm Kantar, worth $415bn (up 32 per cent on last year.) The top ten is Amazon; Apple ($352bn + 14%), Microsoft ($326bn + 30%), Google ($323 ...

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is still busily deal-making (via Zoom presumably) lining up a deal to buy Australia’s Lens10 digital agency to be merged with programmatic business MightyHive and a headline-worthy addition to S4’s board, former Ogilvy boss Miles ...

Changeis something we’ve seen an awful lot of these past months. Unprecedented change that has been unsettling for all of us – as individuals and as professionals. But however unsettling, such times can also be an eye-opening learning opportunity and ...

It can’t be easy producing a global campaign in lockdown but BMB has done a pretty decent job in a global campaign for new client Beefeater gin. A world stuffed full of designer gins doesn’t make life any easier for ...

Milton Glaser, who died last week age 90, is arguably the greatest modern designer – described as the man who “invented the sixties,” certainly many of the images that defined that lively decade. But his most famous comes from 1976, ...

Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun welcomed WPP CEO Mark Read (via video link) to the Palais du Festival to celebrate the achievements of Burger King’s “Mouldy Whopper” ad, which was a joint effort between the two groups. Read greeted Sadoun ...

First is was Facebook, now it’s Twitter and other social media for many big advertisers. The Facebook ad boycott is still growing apace – Unilever, Levi’s – while other advertisers -including Diageo and Starbucks – are pulling their ads from ...

WPP is merging Grey Paris into Ogilvy Paris – both still operating under separate brand names – in what may be the first of many such mergers among the big ad holding companies’ venerable creative networks. The merged agency will ...