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Fashion and fragrance ads occupy a strange and rarefied world of their own but this latest opus for Chanel No 5 featuring Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt takes the petit gateau sec. How much did Coco’s old gaffe have to pay ...

HP Sauce (Houses of Parliament sauce as it used to be) is one of the hardy perennials of British life, as is its agency M&C Saatchi. And this new campaign, the brand’s first TV effort for five years, is very ...

The Foundry is Leo Burnett London’s agency-within-an-agency that employs the company’s bright young sparks on real clients – including P&G (gulp). But it seems to work and, so far, none of its clients seem to have departed. Is it possible ...

He might be, Boserup (left) is joining GroupM (which oversees WPP’s four big media agencies) as global CEO GroupM Trading tasked with aligning trading activities in each of the agencies. Not just that, but he joins after 17 years at ...

Ah, the cynicism of the modern corporation. Remember all those years ago when Jo Moore, spin doctor to Stephen Byers, Department of Transport, Local Government and Regions secretary, emailed her boss those immortal words, referring to 9/11: “It’s now a ...

You have to feel for new BBC director-general George Entwistle – no, not that way – who has walked into the biggest minefield the corporation has faced since Andrew Gilligan’s carelessly-worded (but true) allegation about Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell’s ...

Earlier this week we had Alex Bogusky’s anti-sugar diatribe for the CSPI and now indie film maker Ariel Broggi is gaining some traction with this online film claiming that US children now are dying at a younger age than their ...

Windows 8, coming just two years after its predecessor, is the biggest bet that Microsoft has ever made. A decade ago Microsoft had the tech market signed up; everybody bought its ever more frequent upgrades for even more money even ...

Ads with chirpy employees often seem the last refuge of the idea-free scoundrel but that hasn’t deterred Costa and lively agency Karmarama in this first TV campaign in a long time for the UK’s biggest coffee chain. What do Costa ...