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Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP fame (left) is obviously anticipating a rewarding life in retirement, by flexing his blogging muscles now. He’s started to appear on LinkedIn, as one of its ‘influencers’ – scribes who produce mostly self-serving stuff. And, ...

WPP is becoming more like a department store than a holding company: what sort of agency would you like Mr Client? A big one that produces average stuff everywhere (Team Detroit for Ford) or something a bit more fashionable? One ...

In which our hero continues his tour of the computer industry with observations on, among other things, the art of presenting and the theory and practice of branding. One of the things I learned very early on in this business ...

This was a story that appeared in Campaign last week: to wit, that the Marketing Agencies Association was complaining that Premier Foods, the clapped-out British food company, was inviting its members (mostly what we used to call sales promotion agencies) ...

Samsung Electronics in the UK seems to have taken ever-expanding out of home (OOH) advertising to a new level in the UK with two digital ‘posters.’ One consists of two giant LED screens on the London IMAX cinema (below) on ...

Actually that was only a small part of what the Wieden+Kennedy founder said at Ad Age’s Small Agency conference in his home town of Portland earlier this month but it’s pretty irresistible; especially as his remarks pre-dated the Pubiicis Omnicom ...

We don’t really know who’s in charge of marketing at Apple these days; ultimately it used to be Steve Jobs and TBWA Media Arts Lab head Lee Clow. Is current CEO Tim Cook (left) as ‘hands’ on as Jobs? Cook ...

WPP is still the biggest western marcoms company operating in the China region, even after the PubliCom merger, and boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) is still shopping busily for assets. It has just acquired a majority stake in yet another ...

Post PubliCom merger ripples are still being felt all over the place and my spies in the Far East are busy speculating – over the clink of their properly made gin and tonics in the Raffles Hotel – that a ...