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MDC Partners, the company that owns Crispin Porter + Bogusky, should have seen it coming when it appointed top creative Alex Bogusky as its ‘chief insurgent officer.’ This spectacularly daft title, in a business that prides itself on creating such, ...

In particular Unilever doesn’t need ad agencies to supply the vast amounts of video consumers seem to require these days, new chief marketing officer Keith Weed told journalists this week. Weed was announcing the winner of the Unilever Creative Challenge, ...

Good news at last for Rupert Murdoch and his team at News Corp with research firm Nielsen reporting that 362,000 people in the UK are forking out to access the content behind the Times and Sunday Times paywall. It’s no ...

Shareholders in Mitchell Communication, Australia’s biggest media planner and buyer (and a few other things besides) have voted to accept quoted media group Aegis’ $360m offer for the business, giving them an estimated five per cent stake in the company ...

Remembrance Sunday, which marks the end of World War 1 in the UK but which has an uncomfortable contemporary relevance as the number of casualties among British troops in Afghanistan mounts, is on November 14 this year. The Royal British ...

i being Independent Print’s cut-down version of the ailing Independent quality paper, on sale in the UK today for 20p. First reactions to i have been positive, former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie appearing on the radio this morning to say ...

It’s one thing to put your headlines on Twitter (as we do) but quite another to round up an army of B-list celebs and pay them to plug your products without letting on (we think). That’s what Jaguar Land Rover ...

It may surprise some on this side of the pond to learn that former angry young man George Lois, one of the famous New York admen of the 1960s, is still mixing it with the best of them, partly as ...

No would be most people’s answer (although he looks a bit fearsome in this picture). But BBDO Worldwide CEO Robertson has emailed BBDO US staff after the agency found itself in the spotlight when, in the current series of Mad ...