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New research from Results International shows a significant increase in M&A deal activity involving content production companies, more than doubling from 35 acquisitions globally in 2018 to 82 in 2019. In the last weeks of 2019 alone, Blackstone invested £100m ...

The Mayor of London’s office is kicking off the first integrated advertising campaign to promote the launch of ‘London Power’, a new energy company available exclusively to Londoners. Every year residents in the capital spend an estimated £3.5 billion on ...

A reminder to eat only seasonal vegetables from a health foundation is not, on the face of it, a likely spur to manic creativity. But the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and agency Leo Burnett have certainly turned that on its ...

Is SMS about to announce another deal? He seems to be implying he will in this short video from The Drum at CES 2020 (my, the boy gets around) with some of his S4Capital lieutenants. Saying there’ll be more ‘misfits’ ...

Marketing budgets are up by 4%, if the IPA’s Bellwether Report is to be believed, as marketers relax their purse strings in response to the decisive result of December’s general election. Significantly, the quarterly dispatch records a rare increase for ...

Greenpeace has once again pulled in some major league acting talent for its latest film – a classic Aardman Animations production called “Turtle Journey,” which highlights the plight of the world’s oceans. Olivia Colman and Dame Helen Mirren have got ...

Troubled UK football giant Manchester United (It’s way off the Champions League places although still the highest-grossing UK club on £627m according to Deloitte) is reportedly hunting for its first “creative director.” The lucky (or not) individual would have a ...

No wonder Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun seems to have more grey hairs every time a new picture of him emerges. It won’t be lost on the energetic Sadoun that entries for this year’s Cannes Lions are about to open – ...

Out of Home advertising is everywhere these days, on the rapidly escalating number of escalators too. Leading this particular charge is MotionIcon, which instals ad-friendly escalators in shopping malls, stations and the like. MotionIcon UK and Europe already operates in ...