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Here’s another piece (topical still, from earlier this year) by MAA’s Paul Simons who sadly died earlier this week. Paul was a previous chairman and CEO of Ogilvy UK. Sir Martin Sorrel said, “There are very significant opportunities for a ...

New Ogilvy CEO Andy Main, hired from Deloitte Digital, has made his first big move, bringing in Devika Bulchandani from McCann as North America CEO and global chairwoman of advertising – whatever that means. Maybe that she knows more about ...

As a tribute to long-time MAA business partner Paul Simons who died earlier this week we’ll be publishing a selection of his pieces over the years. This one was recalled by MullenLowe’s Laurence Green. In business it’s often difficult to ...

M&C Saatchi has cleared the management decks as it tries to emerge in one piece from last year’s accounting scandal – where £11.6m was “mis-stated” – with the departures of founders PLC CEO David Kershaw, chairman Jeremy Sinclair and director ...

A UK Out of Home industry collaboration pooling the results from 65 campaigns between March and September 2020, reveals that advertisers who continued to invest in Out of Home benefitted from strong performance including an average +51% shift in ad ...

Paul Simons, my business partner and a shareholder in MAA, has died at 72 after a long illness. Paul was one of the leading figures in the wave of advertising agencies that revolutionised the UK industry and also had a ...

Is Emily in Paris reminding us of French glamour and glitz (arguably somewhat reduced in recent yeqrs?) It can’t have done the makers of posh French accessories any harm and bag maker Longchamp is deploying it to the max in ...

BrewDog beer claims to take twice as much carbon out of the air as it emits, making it carbon negative. Uncommon Creative Studio encouraged the brewer — previously better-known for being outrageous, minus the conscience — to publicise this fact ...

By John Reynolds Henry Daglish, the founder of Bountiful Cow, has left the independent UK media agency after four years. Daglish (left), a high profile figure in media, is rumoured to be launching another startup next year. He left the ...