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Here’s one to bring a warm glow to Piers Morgan’s cold heart. The Good Morning Britain co-host caused a storm a while back by having a go at Daniel Craig for wearing a baby papoose but here’s the mighty Mercedes ...

It’s been a hellish few weeks for Facebook. Earlier this month, just 24 hours after announcing its pivot to a more privacy-focused platform in an attempt to reassure an increasingly concerned user base, it was revealed that Facebook’s single biggest ...

The i newspaper is still with us following the implosion of previous owner Johnson Press, somewhat controversially as it’s now owned by a consortium of Johnson’s creditors in the shape of JPI Media. JPI is running a new print campaign ...

Save the Children’s UK agency adam&eveDDB has been appointed to handle a new global campaign for Save the Children International with the theme Stop the War on Children. Save the Children was founded by Eglantyne Jebb 100 years ago, in ...

Chicken shops seem to be taking over local high streets in some parts of the UK, filling many of the spaces left vacant by more traditional retailers and selling full meals for £1.50 a portion. KFC makes a virtue of ...

Leading international hotel group Accor has appointed Ogilvy Paris as its global agency of record. Ogilvy’s main task will be the launch and management of a new Accor loyalty programme called ALL (Accor Live Limitless). Accor includes almost 4,800 hotels, ...

Former Wunderman execs have landed the plum roles in the two merged WPP agencies in the UK with Pip Hulbert as CEO and Richard Dunn as CSO and chairman. JWT CEO James Whitehead is moving to a “global client role.” ...

Former Engine head of editorial content Matt Williams is joining MSQ Partners in the newly created post of group head of content. MSQ claims to be the UK’s fastest-growing independent agency group with recent wins including Blu, Church & Dwight, ...

At WPP’s last earnings call, the second since Sir Martin Sorrell jumped ship to avoid the plank, the Ogilvy-to-Kantar behemoth rebranded. The group became a ‘creative transformation company,’ whatever that means. earlier this week, addressing the bafflement that has rippled ...