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Which is hardly surprising but also all the more reason to hope that US president Barack Obama and his allies (just about everyone outside Europe) can knock some sense into austerity junkies Germany’s Angela Merkel and even the UK’s David ...

It might seem a little counter-intuitive to announce the global Effie ‘Effectiveness Index’ winners at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity but then, as my colleague Stephen Foster points out, Cannes has become such a monster event it serves as ...

It’s not that long ago that Cannes (then the Cannes Advertising Film Festival, the very small brother of the preceding feature film version) was of interest only to agency creatives and production companies and, in the case of the US ...

Ajaz Ahmed, founder of digital agency giant AKQA is one of the co-authors of a new book Velocity, a best-selling guide to surviving and prospering in the digital age. Here he explains why their thinking is relevant to all kinds ...

Well here’s a turn-up, UK landline telephone operator BT (formerly the nationalised British Telecommunications) has outbid the mighty Disney-owned global sports channel ESPN for the rights to show roughly a third of live Premier League football games over the next ...

Just over 60 per cent of WPP shareholders voted against WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay deal at today’s AGM in Dublin – roughly in line with pre-match predictions. But anyone expecting fireworks would have been sorely disappointed (which is ...

It’s one of life’s ironies that former Posterscope US president Todd Hansen has pleaded guilty to a $19.7m fraud involving bumping up profits so he could secure big bonuses at the same time as the Aegis-owned out of home company ...

WPP has bought a majority stake in Mumbai based Hungama Digital Services for an undisclosed sum. Hungama Digital Services is part of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment and specialises in web design, digital marketing, search engine marketing, social media optimisation and ...

One of the most over-used expressions at the moment in the US is ‘reaching out’ as in ‘thank you for reaching out to us’. I guess it means making contact. It carries more perceived weight than ‘thank you for contacting ...