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Waitrose (or Waitrose & Partners as we’re now supposed to call it) has taken a leaf out of M&S’s old food book (and the Wieden+Kennedy manual) with what we used to call food porn, coupled with some nice free range ...

Does M&S have the faintest clue what it’s doing? Apparently it sells lots of jeans and stuff so it’s charged clothing agency Odd with flogging a few more by making its rather humdrum brand more hip and exciting. Seems sensible ...

Blue Monday (January 20 this year) is the day when the realities of overspend in December come home to roost. But it’s also a time when structural changes in organisations are implemented. So for many an unlucky person it could ...

Is Publicis (finally) turning the corner or is it still stuck where it was? The French-owned holding company’s results for 2019 show revenue up ten per cent to €11bn and operating margin to to 17.3 per cent (ahead of the ...

Slow day in adland today, the ordure may hit the air conditioning when the ad holding companies announce their full 2019 results in the coming days. Here in the UK we’re coming to terms with Brexit, although we have little ...

We’ve mentioned Jerry Buhlmann a couple of times recently in stories about Dentsu Aegis Network, now its former CEO has surfaced as non-executive chairman of digital marketing agency Croud. Buhlmann (below) is one of a number of investors in a ...

While ad evaluation services argue over who won the battle of Super Bowl ads – New York’s AI-based Realeyes reckons it was Pepsico’s Mountain View Zero Sugar (below), the UK’s System1 reckons Microsoft was tops for emotion – the rush ...

Anybody out there with a media agency they’d like to sell? Accenture is pulling out of media auditing to concentrate on “agency” services, which may well include full-on media planning and buying. It already handles programmatic for some advertisers. Accenture ...

Dentsu Aegis Network boss Tim Andree is taking leave of absence for health reason, another sign of upheaval at the Dentsu-owned network which handles the Japanese holding company’s giant media business outside its homeland. Andree (below) was in charge of ...