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12-strong brand communications collective Harbour has signed new member Flourish as its dedicated CRM agency. Flourish’s clients have included Samsung, Twitch, Coca-Cola and Nissan. Bristol-based Flourish was founded in 2004 and also has teams in London and Dubai. Harbour’s group ...

UK supermarkets have a big fight on their hands as the cost of living peaks (we hope) with massive energy price rises coming through in October. Discounters Aldi and Lidl, who seemed to have been contained, will presumably make further ...

Somebody was doing pretty well at Dentsu International – presumably CEO Wendy Clark although there are other candidates, Merkle execs on earn-outs for example – with a pay package of £13.5m. £7.1m in “remuneration”, £6.3m from “long-term incentive schemes” and ...

Many thanks to the many readers – including companies – who have supported MAA over the past two years via your donations. We’ve been overwhelmed by the support, from one-off to regular donations, and it’s been a real boon in ...

Publicis’ Digitas has been appointed as footwear company Crocs’ global digital innovation agency. Digitas UK will lead the business in Europe with the UK and Germany the key markets. Crocs CMO Heidi Cooley says: “What stood out was Digitas’ ability ...

WPP is sticking to its ecommerce strategy, buying Netherland’s based 155-stromg ecommerce consultancy Newcraft, despite its share price (along with most of its peers) languishing, valuing the once £16bn marcoms business at just over £8bn. Some analysts give the company ...

UK ad expenditure increased 20% in the first half of 2022 compared to 2021 according to Nielsen’s Ad Intel, with digital display, outdoor and cinema the stand-outs. Adspend on TV and radio were up by 8.30% and 3.35% respectively compared ...

A network of creatives called Glimpse is campaigning against agency fossil fuel advertising by, inter alia, handing out a pamphlet ‘The ‘The Brief Sabotage Handbook’ outside the London offices of WPP agencies and big PR firm Edelman. The handbook, said ...

Knocking down walls often plays well in ads and it’s the connecting theme of Wieden+Kennedy London’s debut for Revolut, which claims to be the world’s first global financial “super app” with 20 million users and 250m transactions a month. ‘Your ...