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The big marcoms companies have rather enjoyed the sagging global economy over the past couple of years, managing to increase revenue and earnings by rather more than most other sectors, apart from freaky performances like Apple’s (Apple is almost a ...

Well this is the woman you don’t want to meet, a mere (innocent) brush and she’s pregnant. There are loads of weird ads emerging from Scandiwegia (and some of their exiles are taking over big agencies like McCann). And this ...

It seems to be business as usual at Carat (maybe better than usual) following its £3.2bn acquisition by Japan’s Dentsu as the media buyer has just won the $500m Macy’s account from WPP’s MEC. Post-merger many agencies run out of ...

Ever controversial right wing Tea Party supporting US radio host Glenn Beck has his own online clothing range called 1791 (the post-independence year when Vermont was admitted to the Union and Washington DC was officially founded). 1791 was best known ...

I put it all down to a story we wrote back in February saying it was about time Wieden+Kennedy London began to punch its weight. This rather offended affable London boss Neil Christie but since then the agency has proved ...

Fashion and fragrance ads occupy a strange and rarefied world of their own but this latest opus for Chanel No 5 featuring Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt takes the petit gateau sec. How much did Coco’s old gaffe have to pay ...

HP Sauce (Houses of Parliament sauce as it used to be) is one of the hardy perennials of British life, as is its agency M&C Saatchi. And this new campaign, the brand’s first TV effort for five years, is very ...

Giles Keeble started as a rep (account man) at JWT before moving to BMP. There Stanley Pollitt told him that JWT’s Stephen King (the co-founder of account planning with Pollitt) had wanted him to become a planner. John Webster encouraged ...

He might be, Boserup (left) is joining GroupM (which oversees WPP’s four big media agencies) as global CEO GroupM Trading tasked with aligning trading activities in each of the agencies. Not just that, but he joins after 17 years at ...