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New UK Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan (below) says the Government will “reconsider the business case” for privatising Channel 4. That shouldn’t take long as there isn’t one. Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries, a heightened example of former PM Boris Johnson’s ...

VCCP’s latest “Domino-oh-hoo-hoo” ad is set on a desert island, where a trio of castaways are so excited to get a pizza delivery that they miss their chance to escape. The campaign is tied to a 50% off deal, which ...

Waitrose is making its bid in the frighteningly competitive food market with a new campaign plugging its eco-credentials, happy animals, satisfied suppliers and, of course customers – who don’t much resemble Waitrose’s legendary middle class lot. Maybe the latter are ...

Marketing group MSQ has capped a good year with 57% revenue growth to £91.3m and EBITDA profit up 51% to £11.4m. MSQ owns The Gate, Walk-In Media and MBAstack plus outposts in North America and the Far East. CEO Peter ...

With Lucky generals you nearly always get an idea (most of which work) and its debut for The Gym Group has what might be a winner in ‘gymtimidation’ (bit of a mouthful obviously.) The premise being that going to the ...

The Qatar World Cup is almost upon us – another disaster waiting to happen surely – and official beer Budweiser is out of the blocks with Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr and Raheem Sterling entering the arena via the tunnel. All ...

Morrisons, recently displaced as the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket group by Aldi, is reviewing its creative account at Publicis.Poke (an amalgam of Publicis with its digital agency.) Morrisons is now owned by US private equity group Clayton, Dubilier & Rice which ...

The&Partnership doesn’t always get the credit it deserves for trying to up its creative game. The agency is best-known perhaps for its formidable client retention abilities – it recently held on to British Gas creative (which it began handling at ...

Publicis machinations used to be quite good fun when the talk was all of who would eventually succeed CEO Maurice Levy, with various contenders coming and going. Like much else in adland it’s mostly settled down since (disappointing as that ...