Finance

Over the last year or so I’ve compared the advertising output of M&S and John Lewis several times; last Christmas I gave a thumbs down for M&S and thumbs up for John Lewis. Neither was an opinion of the quality ...

Here’s a poser for Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP (left), who’s due to announce his first half numbers later this week (and answer questions about how the PubliCom merger might affect WPP). A few stories have been leaking out, from ...

Adidas and retailer Foot Locker have a tie-up in the UK through which Foot Locker gets first crack at top-rated Adidas kit. One piece of such is its new ‘Hart Court Defender’ shoe (below) and it’s the star (along with ...

Here’s today’s Thursday morning special from Campaign – giant bank HSBC is moving its UK retail and ‘wealth management’ accounts back to former incumbent JWT, just five months after moving them in a protracted review. This was part of a ...

Michael Lee is a former ECD of Euro RSCG New York, handling Volvo worldwide. In 2012 he set up agency search consultancy Madam. My first job in advertising was in an ad agency production department – that area of an ...

Product placement is a mucky business, yet to show it does anything much apart from line the already fat wallets of various celebs and movie studios. The most noxious current examples are the celebs who pick up huge fees for ...

The more you think about a post-PubliCom agency world the more the name Havas crops up. Over the past decade or more Havas has steadily lost ground to its ancient French rival Publicis but now, following the proposed merger between ...

So then, the UK Premier League has started and, as ever, it’s a game of two halves. I spent Sunday at Stamford Bridge watching the triumphant (if, finally, a bit average) return of manager Jose ‘The Special One’ Mourinho, who ...

One area of business where advertising really does make a difference is price comparison websites and the writing has been on the wall for Gocompare.com’s new agency Dare pretty well since it won the account from freelance creative duo Chris ...