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Apple, as expected, seems to be taking more of its work in-house with Bloomberg reporting that Lee Clow’s famed TBWA/Media Arts Lab, probably the most successful of all the dedicated agencies, is laying off around 50 people. Apple VP of ...

‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ means advancement through technology – and it’s served Audi pretty well since BBH founder John Hegarty came across it touring an Audi factory in 1982. That, of course, was the era of such things – BMW had ...

The marketing industry is facing an identity crisis. We have old agencies trying to stay relevant. New agencies trying to prove that their approach is no flash-in-the-pan. Big, ugly networks trying to unpick the knots that they’ve got themselves tangled ...

WPP’s Wavemaker media agency has scored a big and timely win with most of French insurance giant Axa’s global media account. Publicis has won the media business in Germany, the UK, Italy and Hong Kong. Publicis retains Axa’s creative. So ...

It isn’t quite all doom and gloom on the British high street – although most of it is – and US-owned TK Maxx is a rare bright spot, posting a 6.4 per cent sales rise to £3bn and profits up ...

Is Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4Capital setting the pace in advertising, barely a year after he set it up following his defenestration from WPP? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say, and now Fimalac, a holding company owned ...

By Colin Wheeler So for England it wasn’t to be. Congratulations South Africa, and this will mean so much more than just winning a World Cup for the Rainbow nation as it continues to unite its diversity. But what a ...

For all the nostalgia, no one working in advertising today really wants to return to the Mad Men days. It’s always tempting to take a rose-tinted view of the past: after all, it’s the only real comparison we have to ...

You do wonder if the management of big companies ever communicate with each other. Asda launched its glittery new Christmas ad from AMV BBDO on Saturday, at exactly the time thousands of workers faced the chop if they didn’t sign ...