Politics
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Dove takes ‘real beauty’ to China in controversial unborn girls campaign from Ogilvy Shanghai
A few years ago WPP-owned Ogilvy sprung a big surprise by hiring M&C Saatchi creative director Graham Fink, a veteran…
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BBH rides into Old El Paso ad storm
BBH seems to have ruffled a few feathers with this latest encapsulation for General Mills’ Old El Paso tex-mex stuff.…
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Intrepid Indy owners the Lebedevs bet the dacha on new TV station London Live
The Independent newspaper, which also publishes a separate Sunday edition, the cut-price 20p i and the London Evening Standard, is…
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Jane’s Diary: does the ad industry really want to upgrade the status and prospects of women?
Marlene Hore (left), the Canadian grand dame of advertising, said that when she was executive creative director at JWT in…
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Would you take on the Labour Party’s election advertising or is it the brief from hell?
The next UK General Election is still the best part of two years away – assuming the coalition government between…
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Rupert Murdoch hits back at his enemies in politics and the police in startling ‘secret’ tape
Even at 82 it seems that the only way to muzzle, let alone control, Rupert Murdoch is to bury a…
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Clear Channel digital campaign ‘sings’ the Star-Spangled Banner to celebrate the fourth of July
More patriot games from the US: outdoor giant Clear Channel is using its network of digital screens to show lines…
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Worrying times for the marcoms giants as growth judders to a halt in Brazil and China
For years now it’s seemed like a one way bet: expand in the BRICS (the emerging markets of China, Brazil,…
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WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell takes aim at Google over NSA security concerns
We noted last week that WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) had been uncharacteristically quiet of late but this morning…
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