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The AAR (Advertising Agency Register as was) has ranked VCCP as its top new business agency for the seventh straight year. VCCP, now affiliated to the WPP empire, won 21 pieces of business from all sources in 2017 including Britvic, ...

Another day, another epic commercial from a financial services company that avoids talking about what it actually does. This one for Australian bank Westpac celebrates moments in history when Aussies got together to help each other out. It recreates the ...

Those tectonic plates in adland are indeed shifting and conclusive evidence is that The&Partnership’s Johnny Hornby won’t be partying at Cannes on a yacht this year. Many of those who’ve enjoyed JH’s hospitality in the past are still mopping their ...

We may find out the result of the WPP board’s investigation into CEO Sir Martin Sorrell next week according to sources – Sorrell has been accused of “personal misconduct” by someone – although that still seems pretty unlikely with a ...

Here are some supposed highlights from Faceboook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first day of testimony before the US Congress following the Cambridge Analytica data mis-use revelations (87m users had their information hacked). Not much new here from a contrite Zuckerberg although ...

We all know the age-old phrase, “you have to speculate to accumulate.” When talking about building a brand, there’s a certain amount of risk involved in choosing the right direction, especially when there are seemingly endless options on the table. ...

Agency focussed M&A more than doubled in the first quarter of 2018 compared to 2017 (100 deals worth $4.6bn against 94 worth $2bn in 2017) according to marketing consultancy R3 – but just 14 per cent of deals were done ...

Listed marketing services group the mission has bought independent London agency Krow in a deal worth up to £14.5m over three years, based on performance. Krow, which launched in September 2005, is listed as the UK’s 17th largest agency and ...

Procter & Gamble chief brand officer Marc Pritchard said he wanted to “take back control” of his marketing budget and he’s doing so; creating a dedicated full service agency from Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi, WPP’s Grey and Omnicom’s Hearts ...