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The Publicis Groupe share price was rising unsteadily this morning – and WPP with it, in sympathy perhaps – after the collective panic attack that hit markets yesterday after Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun (below) reported growth falling by 0.3 per ...

One of the many benefits of being an A-lister is you and your mates can make ads for each others’ extra-acting products, as here with Hugh Jackman (Laughing Man good works coffee) and Ryan Reynolds (Aviator gin.) The two are ...

Paris in the spring evidently hasn’t sprung yet judging by these two outstanding print campaigns – from BETC Paris celebrating 100 years of Danone yogurt and TBWA\Paris for McDonald’s McDelivery service – but it’s still looking pretty good. Here’s Danone. ...

Yopa said it wanted to challenge the norm when it appointed Mother last year, and that’s exactly what’s happened. The online estate agent’s “Smooth Move” line is brought to life by a man who performs domestic chores with the crack ...

Adam&eveDDB is launching a global campaign for Mars’ Dreamies cat treats, which sounds pretty good. But the TV ads are a somewhat curmudgeonly twenty seconds. Presumably this bright idea came from global media agency MediaCom. Oh well, c’est la vie ...

In a surprise move Volkswagen has switched its Commercial Vehicles account from adam&eveDDB to BBH following a pitch. A&E handles VW’s car account. This is BBH’s first piece of VW brand business although it has handled VW’s Audi since the ...

Publicis Groupe is the first of the big ad holding companies to report its full year figures for 2018 and they’re a mixed bag, showing how hard it is in today’s marketplace for such companies. Organic revenue in 2018 rose ...

Coca-Cola recently got a kicking from Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson, who said (at the Advertising Association conference) that the soft drink company should get real and feature hospitalized diabetes patients in its ads, not beautiful, sporty youth. Watson’s right, ...

WPP via its GroupM media operation has achieved a coup, luring top-rated Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser to be its global president, business intelligence. Wieser spent eight years at Pivotal and has also worked at Interpublic’s Magna Global, Lehman ...