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Even by Fox News standards Tucker Carlson is, um, outspoken from his right wing bully pulpit. And he’s dropped himself in it again with comments on the ‘Black Lives Matter’ George Floyd protest. At least he has with some of ...

Under the sustained pressure of coronavirus, many advertisers and their agency partners have been compelled to adopt new, agile ways of working in partnership. For those still able to trade – from retail to telcos, financial services to home entertainment ...

WPP CEO Mark Read is assembling a formidable board: the latest to join is former Apple retail and Burberry boss Angela Ahrendts. She joins Microsoft UK CEO Cindy Rose and former Unilever marketing chief Keith Weed among others. Ahrendts (below) ...

The new world we’re living in is uncharted territory for consumers and brands. Consumers are cautious and scared, looking for advice but only getting short-term ‘guidelines’ and brands are scrambling around in the dark trying to do the right thing ...

Many parents, exhausted by the pressures of educating their kids, struggling with their day jobs, and the endless domestic drudgery of lockdown, may have be tipped over the edge by the news that schools might not fully open in September. ...

There’s another new agency on the blocks – Trouble Maker formed by Jonathan Fraser, Adam Clarkson, Jonny Grum, and CEO Simon Hankin – and it’s starting with a global client, Peroni Nastro Azzurro. Peroni moves from WPP’s Wunderman Thompson. l/r ...

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell (below) has been speaking at CogX, described as the “global leadership summit and festival for A1 and breakthrough technology” (better than going to Cannes obviously.) Here are some of the highlights: The End of Print: ...

The ad business in the US is panicking mightily over proposed privacy legislation in California, forcing companies to allow consumers to opt out of the sale of their data – worldwide. At the moment opt out requests can be ignored ...

Mary Wells Lawrence, now 92, has been named the this year’s Lion of St Mark by Cannes Lions, even though, sadly for her and those of us who would have liked to see her, there won’t be an actual bricks, ...