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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 ...

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. ...

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,” ...

Marketing group Williams Lea Tag (WLT), now owned by Advent International, is splitting itself in two: former printer Williams Lea which handles outsourced business processes for big companies under its new CEO Clare Hart and Tag which is an ad ...

We’ve been waiting for the big one from Accenture and here it is: Accenture Interactive is buying Droga5, the pioneering creative agency founded by David Droga, currently part-owned by Hollywood outfit WME. Accenture Interactive CEO Brian Whipple (left below with ...

It’s always good to talk down your prospects in the City because, if nothing goes too pear-shaped, investors will think you’re doing well. New WPP CEO Mark Read has been resolutely downbeat in his considered way and it seems to ...

Out of Home media planning and buying company Talon Outdoor has launched a new global OOH network Plexus in response to its own growth and the changing global landscape of OOH. The network links 20 offices across more than 75 ...