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It’s not unusual for someone to go for a quick one after work, which is what two WPP employees were doing last year when they say they espied (according to the FT) Sir Martin Sorrell entering what we might call ...

By Nick Breen and Caroline O’Doherty In May this year the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) published a consultation paper outlining a proposed new rule tackling gender stereotyping in advertising. The draft rule is: “Advertisements must not include gender stereotypes ...

KFC in the UK ran out of chicken a while back after changing distribution companies but won back some ground by responding boldly to this embarrassing setback. Things now seem to be on track so agency Mother has brought back ...

The Drum says its mission statement is that “marketing can change the world;” into a “better place.” So here’s Unilever CMO Keith Weed, who thinks much the same, on its video channel extolling the virtues of various Unilever brands – ...

The Effie Awards and Global Index purport to rank the most effective brands, marketing companies and agencies by their performance in effectiveness awards and in 2017 Pepsi displaced Coca-Cola at the top of its rankings, even though the only Pepsi ...

Good to see Victoria Milligan returning to the media agency fold as marketing and communications director of Dentsu Aegis Network UK & Ireland. She is the widow of Sky sales boss Nick Milligan who died with their eight year old ...

If you find yourself in a Havas office – or any part of Vincent Bolloré’s far flung empire which includes Vivendi as well as African logistics giant Bolloré Group – don’t mention the words Bell Pottinger. Bell Pottinger was the ...

What with WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell disappearing (we think) after a lawyerised inquiry and Havas owner Vincent Bolloré helping the French police with their inquiries into some murky African doings in 2010, 2018 is becoming almost surreal. Who’s next to ...

By Julie Langley Any external candidate to succeed Sir Martin Sorrell as CEO is unlikely to be available to start straight away – at this level many are working to around six months plus notice. That’s a significant hiatus at ...