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M&C Saatchi’s financial travails continue: now the quoted agency group’s shares are to be suspended after it missed a deadline to file its latest accounts following the discovery of an £11.6m accounting black hole last year. The agency has produced ...

The Guardian has discovered that UK government spending on “consultants” had risen to £1.5bn in the last reported year (2017/18, post-Brexit vote) while spending among the top ten on Covid-19-related activities – including the heavyweight (and much-praised, here anyway) NHS ...

Adweek’s Agency Spy has been digging through the New York Times revelations about Donald Trump’s income and tax affairs (his accountants seem to have got there before Apple, Google and Facebook) and discovered he’s made quite a lot from appearing ...

Shades of John Lewis in this ad, which has a touching soundtrack and depicts a young girl who is very attached to her Fisher Price phone. As she reaches adolescence and young adulthood, the phone gets demoted into the attic, ...

Warsaw agency 180hearbeats, part of the German Jung von Matt network, is opening in London. Haven’t they been reading the UK news recently – or heard of Brexit? Leading this audacious venture is business development director Julia Konopka (left) who ...

All agencies are cutting back in the pandemic, especially perhaps those owned by ad holding companies that have external shareholders to satisfy (who may be less forgiving by the end of the year if they don’t see a light at ...

Nobody likes online paywalls very much but journalism isn’t free (to provide that is) and they are one way of supporting it. In the nearly ten years of More About Advertising we’ve been free throughout and intend to stay that ...

As Brexit looms and Boris Johnson’s government struggles to deal with Covid, a new film promoting the UK ad industry aims to convince the world that Britain is the natural centre of the universe for global brands. Timed to coincide ...

Dentsu Aegis International was the Dentsu business outside Japan, consisting of Aegis (media buyers Carat and Vizeum chiefly), customer agency Merkle and various creative agencies. Chief among these was/is Mcgarybowen, now revelling in the title of Densumcgarrybowen. Now the whole ...