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New Ogilvy CEO Andy Main’s team have landed a pretty big one: global lead agency for Swedish vodka brand Absolut. Absolut, now majoring on sustainability, is known for its advertising, latterly much of it through BBH, working at various times ...

We all know the pandemic’s impact on the advertising industry has been tough, and the IPA 2020 census figures are here to prove it. Staff numbers have fallen by 10.8 per cent to 22,188 in 2020, with media agencies (down ...

You take on Apple at your peril but Intel, about to lose its position as supplier of Mac processors, has entered the lists with a campaign featuring actor Justin Long, who appeared batting for Apple in its famous ‘I’m a ...

Assuming we ever get rid of lockdowns (not a racing certainty) one of the enduring consequences will be thousands of newly-acquired pampered pets. My neighbourhood is awash with cockapoo puppies having to share lamp posts (dognappers please don’t read this.) ...

Influencers love to claim that they are “authentic” and hard-working but they haven’t been doing themselves any favours lately. First they get caught sneaking off to lockdown-free Dubai, and now the ASA has exposed them for failing to declare ads ...

2021 may well see the mergers and acquisitions market take off in what used to be adland after a quiet 2020 (for obvious reasons.) But it doesn’t seem to be creative agencies or media independents being snapped up, rather digital ...

Business seems to be booming in China – a touch ironic given the state the rest of the world finds itself in – and fancy commercials with it. Chinese mobile operator OnePlus has teamed with the legendary Hasselblad, which will ...

MSQ has had a busy time in the pandemic and now the marketing group has bought another well-known name, digital and customer engagement agency MBA. MBA will merge with MSQ’s Stack to create a £6m business, MBAstack. MBA founder Stephen ...

Will we be trekking down to the south of France in June for Cannes? If those silly Europeans don’t stop rubbishing the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, doubt it. Relations ‘twixt the Brits and French seem to have deteriorated somewhat post-Brexit – ...