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Omnicom grew strongly in the first quarter of 2022 with organic growth up 11.9%, ahead of rival Publicis with 10.5%. But operating profits were hammered by the war in Ukraine, falling 24.5% to $112.4m with net revenue down 0.5% to ...

A year into its launch, Publicis Groupe’s Le Truc – the New York based collective of 600 creatives, strategists and producers – is staffing up with three new senior hires who will be part of the permanent line-up, including Marcos Kotlhar, ...

It’s always good to see a brand and ad campaign with staying power And Greene King’s Old Speckled Hen certainly qualifies, having been around since at least 1994. OSH has done well to fend off the wave of new, often ...

This has been panned in some quarters, Roger Federer and Anne Hathaway finding themselves on video’s version of the cutting room floor for Switzerland Tourism. Follows a similar-ish effort with Federer and Robert De Niro. From agency Wirz. Actually it’s ...

Macmillan Cancer Support and agency AMV BBDO have won lots of plaudits (and awards) for recent campaigns and here’s a mew instalment of ‘Whatever it Takes.’ Saying that no question is to big or small to get help – something ...

Havas is beefing up its Havas Studios operation with the appointment of industry vet James Sanderson as its first global COO. Havas currently has production studios in London, Prague, New York, Chicago and Paris and what it describes as a ...

Who’d be an ad agency? You spend all that time and money pitching for a prestige account, eventually (as in this case) the product is finally up in the air but the problems airlines and airports are having make the ...

Ikea’s take on wellbeing handily involves messing around with items available in-store. Ping pong, hopscotch and kitchen discos are the new stress-relievers in this latest instalment of Mother’s “Wonderful Everyday” campaign, which promotes play as the best antidote to modern ...

Thin pickings this week (a short one admittedly.) Not actually sure we like this one that much – delivery service Gorillas by Mother offshoot The Or – but at least it’s trying to differentiate Gorillas from all the others by ...