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Nascar ace Jamie McMurray’s niece has autism and both feature in this pro bono ad by BBDO for the US Ad Council and Autism Speaks, showing that the odds against being a star driver are a lot longer than having ...

And Philip Gould (latterly Lord Gould) wasn’t even a particularly famous adman before he was chosen by New Labour presiding genius Peter Mandelson (later Lord…etc, etc) to be the about-to-be-revived party’s opinion pollster (usually focus groups) and sage. Gould died ...

Which is quite a feat for an adman but Jones, the boss of Euro RSCG who took over as CEO of Havas this year, has clearly decided that the best way to differentiate Havas from its bigger marcoms rivals is ...

WPP may own 26.7 per cent of Arun Nanda’s agency Rediffusion-Y&R but the veteran Indian adman is having a high old time tweaking the tail of the world’s biggest marcoms company – and its equally combative boss Sir Martin Sorrell. ...

Indian ad agency Rediffusion may trade under the full moniker of Rediffusion-Y&R and be 26.7 per cent owned by WPP (Dentsu has 13.3 per cent) but founder and boss Arun Nanda and WPP Sir Martin Sorrell most definitely do not ...

Manchester City’s ‘bad boy’ (and extremely good) footballer Mario Balotelli has been signed up to support fireworks safety in his adopted home town of Manchester. Just the other week some of Mario’s chums set fire to his £3m rented house ...

Two years ago at Cannes Saatchi & Saatchi Tel Aviv launched its ‘Impossible Brief,’ inviting creatives to produce something that helped to foster better relations between the Israelis and Palestinians. The winner was Jean-Christophe Royer (pictured here in enfant terrible ...

Coca-Cola just loves polar bears, the not-so-cuddly creatures have given the fizzy drink an unlikely winter platform for years now. As someone on YouTube points out, this ad manages to connect the North (polar bears) and South (penguins) Poles. Anyway ...

About 80 per cent of non-aligned or independent shareholders do anyway according to this analysis by the BBC’s Robert Peston of votes cast at last Friday’s AGM of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Nearly as many want elder brother Lachlan to ...