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Former JWT creative director Chas Bayfield and his colleague Dave Jenner who have successfully taken JWT to an employment tribunal for sex discrimination deserve a medal. As it happens, Jenner is thought to have left the industry while Bayfield is ...

If you want to deal with one of the giants of the tech world you might have to put some money Sir Martin Sorrell’s way as his S4 Capital hoovers up some of the multitude of firms that service the ...

Garrett O’Reilly is MD of Omnicom media agency Hearts & Science UK. Founded in 2016, Hearts & Science clients including GoCompare, Audible, Ocado, Sanofi, Center Parcs, Yakult, Ramsbury Single Estate, Thames Water, Freeview and SEGA. Desert Island Ads Sustainability in ...

Just less than ten per cent of British Army soldiers are women so Karmarama is running new campaign aimed at women recruits – ‘A Soldier is a Soldier’ (well, yes.) Featuring some not-to-be-messed with women describing their jobs and the ...

We don’t know yet whether the Tokyo Olympics will be a damp squib, a disaster or a triumph of the Olympian spirit. It had better be the latter for a number of big US advertisers who are throwing zillions of ...

More sustainability (see Desert Island Ads): this time for Hendrick’s Gin on UK bus shelters adorned with cucumbers and roses so you can smell Hendrick’s’ cucumber and rose aroma. Plus you can press a doorbell – ‘Press for the Peculiar’ ...

Accenture Interactive’s Karmarama has hired Vix Jagger and Pablo González de la Peña (below) as joint ECDs. Jagger was a creative director at Anomaly London, Gonzales a creative director and head of art at BBH. The two worked together four ...

Three of the big ad holding companies have posted spectacular post-pandemic bouncebacks in the first half of 2021, in effect a free hit as Q2 2020 saw advertisers across the world slashing budgets. Even so the numbers look pretty impressive. ...

Engine owner Lake Capital is reportedly trying to sell the mini-marcoms business, including Engine Creative, formerly WCRS, for £100m through Lazards – a quarter of its original mooted sale price a few years ago. Lake Capital, a big Silicon Valley ...