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All of a sudden the world’s looking more troubled for adland, despite its better than expected bounceback form the recession. A perfect storm of war in the Ukraine and its effect on energy and commodity prices, a grinding halt in ...

Didn’t know there was an Institute of Advertising Ethics but there is, it seems, and there’s a special IAE certificate – Certified Ethical Advertising Executive (CEAE) – developed with Creighton Business School and the University of Texas at Austin. Havas ...

The UK government is, in many, ways quite a diverting comedy: Partygate, tractorgate (watching porn in Parliament), bloodcurdling noises from a nakedly ambitious foreign secretary over Ukraine, echoed by a PM who seems to think poking the Russian bear is ...

Wieden+Kennedy New York’s ‘Built Ford Proud’ is a blue collar campaign if ever there was one and its latest iteration – readied for the Kentucky Derby (blue collar too) – takes a pop at an unnamed individual who’s very noisy ...

Publicis boss Arthur Sadoun has been shopping again – ecommerce obviously – paying an estimated €200m for 300-strong Boston-based retail software company Profitero. Profitero, which specialises in analytics, will be rolled in with other Publicis tech buys Epsilon (consumer data), ...

Netherlands-based Randstad, which claims to be the biggest global specialist HR services provider, has appointed Havas London as its creative agency of record. At the same time its online-only recruitment site Monster has chosen sibling Arnold Worldwide in Boston to ...

David Droga, CEO of newly-minted Accenture Song (formerly Accenture interactive) has been enlarging on the rebrand, saying the move the move was necessary to create a simpler model that clients could understand while also expanding the type of clients agencies ...

Interpublic (IPG) has more than matched its peer ad holding companies with net revenue of $2.23 billion, up 9.8% from 2021 with organic net revenue growth of 11.5%. Organic revenue increases among the big five (WPP, Omnicom, IPG and Publicis ...

Brands are in the front line everywhere these days it seems and this installation – officially sanctioned presumably – has appeared in St Petersburg,. using the logos of companies who’ve pulled out of Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. Spelling ...