Finance

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 ...

Nearly three weeks on from the seismic news that Publicis Groupe and Omnicom are to merge and still no end in sight to the discussion of possible permutations. Not, be it noted, among the clients involved – who are mostly ...

There are quite a few poachers turned gamekeepers around in the ad business these days and two of the highest profile are Mike Greenlees and Nick Manning, CEO and international president respectively, of AIM-quoted ad monitoring business Ebiquity. Greenlees (left) ...

RKCR/Y&R, as WPP’s Y&R agency still insists on being known in London, is, amongst other things, a great incubator of new agencies. Maybe that’s why it keeps the Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe bit (even though all but one have departed) ...