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“The chief business of America is business” opined President Calvin Coolidge (not usually known for his eloquence) in the pre-Wall Street Crash 1920s. It is for the New York Stock Exchange anyway and (British) The&Partnership’s New York office sticks to ...

The bosses of three ad holding companies – John Wren at Omnicom, Interpublic’s Michael Roth and Publicis’ Arthur Sadoun have weighed in as America explodes following the murder of George Floyd. WPP’s Mark Read can be forgiven perhaps for being ...

Here’s the Government’s film explaining ‘test and trace,’ its great hope for easing the UK out of lockdown. It’s simple and clear (MullenLowe?) so job done? But do they really expect people to self-isolate for 14 days – on the ...

When you’re producing zillions of bits a content a day the odd howler is going to slip through but this Instagram effort from Volkswagen is a peach. Racist or what? So we’ve had VW board members frantically grovelling in public ...

Tony Blair’s spinmeister Alastair Campbell is supposed to have said that if a poliicial story lasted more than a week then the subject of it is probably toast (Campbell denied this in a blog post, saying it depended on circumstances ...

What a difference a quarter makes. While 2019 remained gloomy for the high street, some positives still reared their heads – there were record Black Friday sales and consumer sentiment improved. Then in one fell swoop, nearly all marketing plans ...

It’s Ramadan in the UK so Tesco is promoting its halal meats with this lively effort from BBH (presumably) as part of its ‘Food Love Stories’ campaign. Predictably it’s provoked a Twitter storm, in large part from people who disapprove ...

By Caroline Davison. Covid-19 may end up being the kick up the backside that we in adland need to get our priorities straight. We’re now realising that the Climate Crisis will affect us all and change our lives beyond recognition. ...

Sunday was International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (blimey, all of them at once) and We Are Social Milan has produced a supporting campaign for IKEA to run across 25 of the retail giant’s markets (five missing, wonder which ...