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AMV BBDO has done a good job with Hiscox Insurance which it signed up when it lost the Aviva account to Omnicom sibling adam&eveDDB. At first it didn’t seem that much of a swap but it’s brought the best out ...

Just Eat is giving its global creative account to McCann it seems, which may not be good news for its agency in France Buzzman (although the French tend to do things differently.) Here’s a new effort from the anarchic Buzzman, ...

Is this advertising or a big American company cozying up to the US’s big trade rival – or something in between? China has landed a probe on the far side of the moon, which is a PR plus for its ...

WPP has joined former incumbent Interpublic’s McCann in contesting the result of the US Army’s review of its massive ten-year $4bn ad account, claiming that the winner, Omnicom’s DDB, couldn’t (among other things) do the job for the money. The ...

Barclays is reviewing its £60m creative account after 17 years at BBH. The bank, currently under siege from a dissatisfied investor and with a trial of its former CEO John Varley and others underway, moved its Barclaycard business into Droga5 ...

Havas has named Chris Hirst as head of its international creative network, working alongside Havas Media Group CEO Peter Mears and Havas Health & You boss Donna Murphy. Hirst was Havas’ EMEA boss and before that head of WPP’s Grey ...

We now know that the number of Amazon Alexa Skills in the UK rose by 233 per cent from 2017 to 2018 – on average, an addition of 57 new Skills every day for the past year. In other words, ...

David Jones’ “brandtech” venture You & Mr Jones has bought a majority stake in Oliver owner Inside Ideas Group for an estimated $200m. Oliver, set up by Simon Martin in 2004, provides on-site agency/studios to a range of advertisers. Its ...

If there’s a big pow-wow going Sir Martin Sorrell will be there (CES this week, Davos to come – for all we know he’ll be providing the Super Bowl half-time entertainment.) Here he is with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin who’s gamely ...