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We all know that Facebook is watching us somehow or other, even if we don’t use it. Now anyone can play at Mark Zuckerberg, with the Facebook Portal, a sort of combo between permanent Skype and iPad. A few glitches ...

Advertising Week in New York is proving surprisingly interesting – Burger King’s lively CMO on his radical approach to advertising, Arthur Sadoun forced to admit that Publicis’ purchase of data firm Epsilon was “expensive but necessary” – and S4Capital’s Sir ...

Would the last person to leave Grey London please turn out the lights? After CCO Vicky Maguire’s defection to Havas comes the news that CMO Sarah Jenkins (left) is moving to the role of MD at Saatchi & Saatchi. Jenkins ...

This year’s Cannes Lions winners are only 50 per cent as effective at long-term branding as the winners of five years ago, according to analysis from Kantar, which also claims that only one in four award-winning creative ads delivers “brand ...

Grey London CCO Vicki Maguire, one of London’s highest profile creatives, is joining Havas London in the same role. Havas is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vivendi, also run by the Bollore clan, and this is a bold statement of ...

Doing good can do you good – if you do it properly. Which the Irish Rugby Football Union and Chrome owner Google have done here, launching a free Chrome download that lets colour blind Irish rugby fans see their team ...

Pelle Sjoenell, the Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of BBH, is the latest advertising leader to make the move to a tech company. After 12 years at BBH, he’s going to be chief creative officer at Activision Blizzard, a video game ...

We only ask because the UK Supreme court has ruled that most of PM Boris Johnson’s wheezes – like proroguing Parliament – are not legal (the court says Parliament is still sitting.) Johnson tried to claim he did this – ...

Tough times for the travel trade with Britain’s venerable operator Thomas Cook becoming the latest victim of digital disruption but the big cruise firms seem to cruise on, despite accusations that they’re sinking Venice and all the rest of it. ...