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Engine has kept itself in adland’s headlines for most of its life, from 2004 when it was formed from a buyout of WCRS (below) from Havas, to 2008 when it acquired the iconic Partners Andrew Aldridge. It was also a ...

Some groups in UK adland are protesting vociferously about coverage of Jo Wallace, a leading player in the JWT sex discrimination case. Specifically an article on Mail Online. Complaints have been made to IPSO, the rather toothless replacement for the ...

Former JWT creative director Chas Bayfield and his colleague Dave Jenner who have successfully taken JWT to an employment tribunal for sex discrimination deserve a medal. As it happens, Jenner is thought to have left the industry while Bayfield is ...

Three of the big ad holding companies have posted spectacular post-pandemic bouncebacks in the first half of 2021, in effect a free hit as Q2 2020 saw advertisers across the world slashing budgets. Even so the numbers look pretty impressive. ...

Three out of five French consumers think brands make insincere claims about supposed purpose in their ads according to a survey by BVA for Paris ad agency Babel. So Babel, with directors Emma + Elliot from production company Birth has ...

One of the ironies of the digital era is that the tech companies that have, among other things, supposedly written the obituary of big, mass audience TV campaigns, are falling over themselves to compete with – big, mass audience TV ...

Yesterday was so-called “Freedom Day” in the UK when all the remaining Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were supposed to be scrapped – except, of course, they haven’t been. Dithering PM Boris Johnson (every time he makes his mind up some senior ...

Is it any better to discriminate against “straight white men” than people of other genders and ethnicities? Positive discrimination may be one way of levelling a playing field but not, surely, when it means people losing their jobs. But that’s ...

Heineken has consistently hit the right note in the pandemic with the help of Publicis Italia and it’s done so again as we teeter out of it: showing a bunch of vaccinated oldies hitting the clubs. “The night belongs to ...