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To Dubai for the 60th Annual Congress of FEPE International, an extraordinary event with over 400 delegates that brings together the burgeoning worldwide Out of Home industry and, among other things, tests the stamina of even the most accomplished hotel ...

Are the peasants revolting? Campaign reports that Leo Burnett, Lucky Generals and Ogilvy have declined invitations to pitch for Audi – which should be a much-prized account – in what’s said to be a procurement-led pitch. Audi is being defended ...

David Patton, arguably the most high profile casualty of Mark Read’s re-organisation of WPP, has landed a plum new job as global president, customer experience and advertising at Technicolor. Technicolor also owns MPC Advertising (MPC was formerly the Moving Picture ...

UK adspend continues to motor ahead – despite the gloomsters – up a surprising 6.3 per cent in 2018 according to an Advertising Association/WARC survey. The two are forecasting further increases in 2019 and 2020, despite Brexit and all that. ...

It’s becoming a tale of two continents among the big ad holding companies: Interpublic has just announced another stellar set of quarterly results – organic revenue up a whopping 6.4 per cent in Q1 2019 – following on the heels ...

Readers of both MoreAboutAdvertising and AdScam will be more than familiar with my ongoing obsession with how the BDHC’s (Big Dumb Holding Companies) have managed to destroy what was once a great business that allowed you to get pissed, drugged ...

Timing is all, as they say, and just as WPP has announced some pretty grim first quarter trading numbers former CEO Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has chosen to announce two new acquisitions: “food and liquids studio” Caramel Pictures and ...

To nobody’s great surprise the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked the attempted £7bn merger of Sainsbury’s and Walmart-owned Asda, saying: “It’s our responsibility to protect the millions of people who shop at Sainsbury’s and Asda every week. ...

Would you adam&eve it, a bummer from Volkswagen. But actually it’s not the cultured academy in Paddington but DDB Berlin for VW’s new T-Cross, presumably a sign that VW’s T-Roc is starting a family. How many brands does VW need? ...