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Hard on the heels of buying New York and London-based Droga5, Accenture Interactive has snapped up another highly-regarded creative agency Shackleton in Madrid. Shackleton was founded in 2004 and now has 160 staff. Clients include Coty, Campari, Aperol and Sony ...

Fosters is back with its first TV campaign for four years from adam&eveDDB, featuring popular ockers Brad and Dan. Strangely enough, Brad and Dan won the IPA Effectiveness Awards Grand Prix back in 2014, which seems to have prompted owner ...

Spring has sprung in the UK (it’s bucketing down with rain in my corner of the metropolis) and it seems a new recession is on the way as businesses and consumers despair of anything good emerging from the Brexit farrago. ...

The whole car industry is in flux at the moment, with car share schemes taking off, Uber everywhere, and driverless cars just around the corner, but the old-fashioned car rental market has not given up yet, judging by this high ...

More diverting doings in London’s adland: AMV BBDO group chairman Justin Pahl (left) is off to be CEO of WPP’s VMLY&R London (which doesn’t look like the most obvious thing to do) leaving Sarah Douglas in charge as AMV CEO ...

If you think the Accenture/Droga5 tie-up is a big deal, think what may be happening in France. Publicis is considering a $5bn offer for data firm Epsilon, its biggest potential deal so far and one that has spooked shareholders as ...

Is Accenture Interactive’s purchase of Droga5 a game-changer for both parties and the industry as a whole? David Droga (below, with Accenture interactive boss Brian Whipple) says he wants to take the ad business “by the scruff of the neck,” ...

Much of the best creativity (some would say just about all of it) is coming from tech companies these days. Why? They’ve got the budget and at the top end of the market a healthy business model. They’re also willing ...

Did you know that Apple holds the patent for round pizza boxes? It does, they use them in its canteens. Anyway, they’re the inspiration for this Apple At Work ad showing how its products help a bunch of “underdogs” prepare ...