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The return to the office is an issue for many companies and their staff, adland not excluded. Ogilvy UK, now comfortably ensconced in the Sea Containers building overlooking the Thames – after decades of exile in horrible Canary Wharf – ...

We all know that the planet is going to hell in a handcart, it’s more a matter of how soon and what can we do about it? In the UK we have protesters glueing themselves to motorways, which seems to ...

Ikea found fame for chucking out the chintz; now Dunelm is doing the opposite, and chucking out the scandi grey. Creature London’s first campaign for the furniture retailer encourages customers to defy interiors sameness and bring some colour into the ...

Publicis has laid down a significant marker for its holding company rivals – and even fast-growing newbies like Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital – by posting third quarter (Q3) organic growth of 11.2%. The US was up 11.2%, Europe 10% ...

Ambitious London-based marketing group MSQ has made another heavyweight hiring. Former Kantar Consulting Europe CEO Bart Michels is joining as an executive director and executive chairman of MSQ’s insights and analytics consultancy Freemavens. Michels (left) worked in marketing at companies ...

Spark44 and MediaCom won the top prizes in Ocean Outdoor’s annual digital creative competition with Out of Home executions created for Land Rover and the charity Rays of Sunshine respectively. The winners were chosen by a panel of 19 expert ...

Facebook has promoted Nicola Mendelsohn to its top advertising job, leading the Global Business Group across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, where she will be responsible for client relationships and building on the $84 billion in ad spend that the company ...

Phrases such as “the best slots on the planet”, “all about the customer” and “win it big” have become commonplace throughout the online casino community. There is indeed something to be said about such promotions when we consider the fact ...

Remember when subliminal advertising was deemed a threat to humankind? No? Well it was “the use by advertisers of images and sounds to influence consumers’ responses without their being consciously aware of it.” First discovered, allegedly, in 1947 when it ...