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WPP has produced a name for its new data centre which brings together Wunderman Thompson and Group M assets – Choreograph. Yep, fine, if WPP can’t do this with all its in-house design resources then there would something wrong. Meanwhile ...

The US must have more lawyers and law schools per head of the population than anywhere and the result? To an outsider at least, one of the most dysfunctional justice systems. Reform Alliance is trying to change the onerous rules ...

The seemingly endless lockdown agency reviews are coming through: Pablo in the UK has won the substantial DFS furniture account against strong opposition while Serviceplan’s media agency Mediaplus has won Nikon media in 12 European countries. DFS moves from Krow ...

When Google first announced in 2020 its intent to phase out the use of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser by 2022, two years seemed like a long time to prepare. However, that final cut-off date is fast approaching, and ...

Publicis Groupe has beaten WPP in a €2 billion media planning and buying shoot-out for the world’s fourth biggest global car giant, Stellantis. Stellantis (the name was chosen because it means “brighten with stars” in Latin) is the new name ...

DDB’s Rapp has won the KFC CRM account in the UK, bouncing back after its loss of the VW Financial Services CRM business to Havas CX. Rapp won after a pitch organised by the AAR. The business moves from Iris. ...

“One of the biggest mistakes people make with technology – and adtech is included here,” says Talon Outdoor global CEO Barry Cupples, “is thinking it’s a way of doing things better with fewer people. Of course it can be a ...

Is there anything Apple can’t or won’t do? Steve Jobs’ Cupertino creation will doubtless confirm that it’s just about the most profitable company in the history of the world when it announces its latest results shortly (Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil ...

A recurring theme in advertising is ‘simple,’ clearly it’s dawned on the serried ranks of CSOs that people are increasingly fed up with a world in which everything is complicated – even when it doesn’t need to be. This insight ...