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S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell gives good interview even though half the audience is probably scratching its head at some of the phrases he uses (he likes to introduce new ones on a regular basis.) So attendees at an International Advertising ...

WPP has sold its 25 per cent stake in Chime – owner of Sebastian Coe’s SCM Sport & Entertainment and VCCP (below) – to majority owner Providence Equity Capital for an initial £54.4m, valuing Chime at nearly £220m. This is ...

Ocean Outdoor has struck a partnership agreement with the All England Tennis Club to live stream this year’s Wimbledon tournament, including both men’s and women’s finals. Jaguar has been signed up as Ocean’s sponsor for the tournament coverage. Sites include ...

WPP evidently isn’t giving up with Ford and its bespoke ford agency GTB. It may have lost US creative to a combo of BBDO and Wieden+Kennedy but GTB trucks on, appointing Robert Guay (left) from Publicis-owned Digitas as its new ...

Taking a truly data-driven approach to creative solutions, over 50 creative Out of Home (OOH) formats have been created and planned for Virgin Media‘s new ‘Unlimiting’ campaign. The new campaign combines complex media planning using Talon’s Ada AdTech platform with ...

FCB has resigned Beiersdorf’s global Nivea account, after working on it for over 100 years. The split allegedly follows a client remark that “we don’t do gay” on viewing submitted creative work. FCB and Nivea are staying schtum although FCB ...

Phil Geier (Philip H. Geier Jr to give him his full title) was chairman and CEO of Interpublic from 1980 to 2000, when he turned Marion Harper’s Interpublic into the biggest ad holding group in the world. He began his ...

Ogilvy’s David, which has been hit by breakaway agency GUT, isn’t taking things lying down and has appointed Pancho Cassis as partner and global CCO. Additionally it’s opening its first European office in Europe, in Madrid working on Twitter among ...

This year at Cannes we saw the expected deluge of purpose-focused winners, from the massive Dream Crazy ad from Nike to the less well-known Carling’s Address the Future initiative. Each year, it seems that more Lions are awarded to campaigns ...