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Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun welcomed WPP CEO Mark Read (via video link) to the Palais du Festival to celebrate the achievements of Burger King’s “Mouldy Whopper” ad, which was a joint effort between the two groups. Read greeted Sadoun ...

First is was Facebook, now it’s Twitter and other social media for many big advertisers. The Facebook ad boycott is still growing apace – Unilever, Levi’s – while other advertisers -including Diageo and Starbucks – are pulling their ads from ...

WPP is merging Grey Paris into Ogilvy Paris – both still operating under separate brand names – in what may be the first of many such mergers among the big ad holding companies’ venerable creative networks. The merged agency will ...

When a new marketing boss comes in an agency review usually follows and Leo Burnett in the UK may have been concerned when it discovered UK CMO Gareth Helm was leaving, apparently at his behest. Mobile operator Three, when such ...

Hitherto all-conquering Facebook (with advertisers and media agencies anyway) is now like a rabbit in the headlights as the Anti-Defamation League in the US bites, sparked by Black Lives Matter. Now Verizon, which spends around $2m on Facebook and Instagram, ...

In the absence of the real thing, Cannes is putting on a series of live talks this week, bringing out the heavy hitters for a candid discussion about coronavirus and racism. On the panel were Mark Read, CEO of WPP; ...

Burger King is reopening in France so here’s Burger Klean, a spoof airline safety ad from the brilliant Buzzman. Burger King and David Miami have also landed The One Show’s top creative gong for ‘Moldy Whoppoer.‘ Pretty revolting I’d say ...

Cannes Lions has been busily counting up its regional Agencies of the Decade (top award winners) and joining adam&eveDDB (European agency of the decade, below) are VMLY&R Dubai (Middle East and Africa), AlmapBBDO Sao Paulo (LatAm), Colenso BBDO Auckland (Pacific), ...

By Douglas Wood and Nick Swimer. On May 6 ISBA released a summary of a nine-month investigation into digital media buying in the United Kingdom. The investigation, led by PwC, examined the waterfall effect of an advertiser’s investment – the ...