Finance

MSQ, which now describes itself as a “global next generation creative and technology group,” has launched MSQ Global Studios to help advertisers deliver relevant content across the ever-increasing number of media channels. MSQ Global Studios will be led by MSQ ...

It’s all change at the top of the big ad networks – Wendy Clark exiting Dentsu International (as is DI as it will be no more) and now Andy Main stepping down as global CEO of WPP’s Ogilvy to be ...

Chris Chapman (below) has joined adam&eveDDB as the agency’s first creative director of design, reporting to CCO Richard Brim. Chapman joins from Droga5 after stints at London agencies including Wieden+Kennedy, Grey, where he worked on award-winning Volvo and Saatchi & ...

CEO Wendy Clark is, indeed, leaving Dentsu International – on December 31 as the Japan-owned ad giant moves to “one management team.” Her job, it says, is being “discontinued.” From January 2023 Dentsu Group Inc. CEO Hiroshi Igarashi will run ...

Everybody looks forward to adam&eveDDB’s blockbuster Christmas ad for John Lewis and its mid-season effort usually causes a stir too – last year there was a “trans” row one recalls. This year’s comes out on Thursday. With a new line: ...

House 337 received a somewhat sceptical response when the Next 15-owned combo of Engine Creative and fashion agency ODD announced its new moniker. 337 is the number of people it employed at the outset and some thought it might not ...

The UK’s AA (Automobile Association as was) is reviewing its account at adam&eveDDB after eight years. A&E is reportedly not repitching. The agency change hardly comes as a surprise as the AA’s most recent work has singularly lacked A&E’s usual ...

12-strong brand communications collective Harbour has signed new member Flourish as its dedicated CRM agency. Flourish’s clients have included Samsung, Twitch, Coca-Cola and Nissan. Bristol-based Flourish was founded in 2004 and also has teams in London and Dubai. Harbour’s group ...

UK supermarkets have a big fight on their hands as the cost of living peaks (we hope) with massive energy price rises coming through in October. Discounters Aldi and Lidl, who seemed to have been contained, will presumably make further ...