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Heaven knows what’s going to happen to America as this election year unfolds. Conservative group The Lincoln Project (after Abraham) has entered the lists again against Donald Trump with a new film ‘War zone’ hammering the president for his response ...

Research firm Forrester is predicting that US agencies will lose 52,000 jobs through 2021, 35,167 in 2020 and 16,758 in 2021 to be precise. Creative agencies will be hit hardest (down 14%) with digital and media agencies down seven per ...

Brands seem to go in one of three directions in response to Covid-19. There’s the empty “We’re here for you” promise, there’s the offer of practical support (Pret a Manger), and there’s providing entertainment, which is what Churchill is doing ...

Former BBDO New York CCO Greg Hahn, laid off by the Omnicom-owned giant in its Covid-19 retrenchment, has bounced back quicky – heading a US outpost of “alternative” Canada agency No Fixed Address (NFA.) Hahn’s enterprise is called [email protected] Fixed ...

The bosses of three ad holding companies – John Wren at Omnicom, Interpublic’s Michael Roth and Publicis’ Arthur Sadoun have weighed in as America explodes following the murder of George Floyd. WPP’s Mark Read can be forgiven perhaps for being ...

London agency Pablo has won Comic Relief – the venerable charity best known for its Red Nose Day flagship fundraising event – after a pitch. Pablo already handled linked Sport Relief. Comic Relief head of marketing and communication Jo Cullen ...

Clearly depends which way you look at these things. Ad forecaster WARC headlines its latest numbers: Brands cut $50 billion from global adspend in wake of COVID-19. Ouch. Then we read: Global adspend to fall 8.1% in 2020. Which, in ...

People are flooding online: 40 per cent of new users are said to be children (which presumably means means that there are lots of old new users too). So WPP is partnering with “kidtech” privacy platform SuperAwesome SuperAwesome’s tools include ...

Is Donald Trump the man to rein in social media? Given that he seems to operate largely via Twitter this is a strange prospect – but the Donald is threatening Twitter with an un-specified ‘executive order” after it placed a ...