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Trouble Maker, the new London agency that started life with the global Peroni account, has won Sports Direct’s social and paid social media business. Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct is the UK’s biggest sporting goods retailer. The agency’s remit includes social ...

Macmillan Cancer Support is going into battle – sort of – in a new campaign from AMV BBDO, positioning the charity as “compassionate warrior” prepared to do “whatever it takes.” As Britain’s under-resourced and (arguably) over-managed NHS struggles with the ...

Streaming services have driven the transformation of TV, with free-to-use ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) platforms playing a vital role in revolutionising the way TV inventory is produced, bought and sold. Even Amazon is looking to get in on the ...

History has shown that the media industry is more than capable of weathering a storm, writes JAA Media’s John Ayling. As we enter a new year – and a new lockdown in the UK – Its timely to revisit a ...

Put away those Chelsea tractors and get down with the real men (and, no doubt, women and others) with a new Ford F-150 truck. Ford’s biggest seller obviously strikes a chord for those with the pioneer spirit – in this ...

Is this an augury for 2021? As the business world struggles to get back to something like normal in the second wave of the pandemic, Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital is one of the first out of the blocks, announcing ...

Barclaycard has been totting up the winners and losers in UK consumer spending through 2020 – overall it’s down 7.1% on 2019 – with some interesting beneficiaries. But the bad news first (it’s 2020 after all) Restaurants were down 47% ...

2020 has seen a spate of new agency start-ups but how many will succeed, even survive? MAA’s late business partner Paul Simons had this to say on a similar wave back in 2014. Is new business getting harder for start-ups? ...

What do we have to look forward to in 2021? Or, to rephrase, do we have anything to look forward to in 2021? Something we definitely aren’t looking forward to in 2021 is the passing of a generation of people ...