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Channel 4 CEO David Abraham (left), back in the day a founder of the St Luke’s agency, came out fighting at the Edinburgh Festival the other day; accusing US TV companies of trying to buy UK TV assets to provide ...

Coca-Cola is launching Coca-Cola Life in the UK today. Coke Life sits between Coke Zero and Diet Coke in the lower calorie stakes. Coca-Cola has taken a monumental PR pounding in recent years for making the world fatter and you ...

Lori Senecal’s New York agency KBS, owned by MDC & Partners, is expanding in the UK by buying a majority stake in London creative and digital agency Albion. KBS is following in the footsteps of a number of US agencies ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell (left) may have headed to Greece for his hols but he’s still supplying the world’s media with his opinions. In an interview with Aussie site Mumbrella he suggests that Omnicom had emerged the stronger over Publicis ...

JC Decaux, which claims to be the world’s biggest outdoor company, is ramping up its efforts to win the lucrative ten-year Transport for London (TFL) contract, held by US company Clear Channel. The contract, which includes the capital’s bus shelters, ...

I couldn’t muster the energy to stay up on Sunday night to watch Rory McIlroy’s amazing US PGA Championship triumph, but I really wish I had. The victory capped an incredible few weeks for the Northern Irishman, who becomes the ...

With the continued rise of the internet people are changing the way they research, purchase and interact with brands. Convenience and the need to do things on the go have led to mobile apps and internet sites increasing usage. But ...

MDC Partners is perhaps the most interesting holding company around: Miles Nadal’s construct includes some top creative names – Anomaly, Crispin Porter and 72andSunny among them – but has so far adamantly declined to make a profit. Not that this ...

Back in April 2013 Chinese PR-based marcoms contender Blue Focus bought a 20 per cent stake in Lord Chadlington’s quoted PR business Huntsworth for a chunky £36.5m. Today it was announced that Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was, left) is to ...