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Here’s Maurice Levy in lockdown, telling The Drum’s Stephen Lepitak about working from home, his brief spell seconded (it seems) to WeWork and working with his successor as Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun. No chateau by the sea for Maurice ...

A Fishbowl US survey, reported in Agency Spy, shows that advertising and marketing people lead the field when it comes to drinking at home while at “work” in these WFH days – an impressive 49.14%. For once lawyers are beaten ...

The latest IPA report finds that BAME staff in agencies have dropped to 13.7%. This low proportion doesn’t surprise me at all because you can blatantly see it. You can see it in the poorly written work that spells out ...

Commercial advertising in April 2020 pretty much ground to a halt (with some exceptions): what work there was was Covid-19. Much of it was along the line: we’ve got to do something. But there were two stand-outs, efforts that would ...

The UK was producing some brilliant creative work in the early 80s, but on the other side of the pond they were giving us a run for our money. I have always loved this, Ally & Gargano TV spot for ...

The ever-ingenious Arthur Sadoun at Publicis has produced a new wheeze for these straightened times: money back for clients if Publicis doesn’t deliver “guaranteed outcomes” via its new The Pact service for mid-sized clients. Mid-sized being a prety wide definition: ...

It’s not only a brilliant ad, it’s one that could surely have been created in lockdown? Some CCTV footage, coupled with a bit of animation, won Harvey Nichols a Film Grand Prix at Cannes in 2016. The adam&eve/DDB creative team ...

Japanese pro-biotic dairy drink maker Yakult has appointed independent London agency Brothers and Sisters as its main creative partner in Europe after a seven-agency, six-month pitch involving agencies from the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Italy. Yakult European commercial director Minoru ...

Martin Sorrell, executive chairman of S4 Capital, is feeling pretty pleased with his decision to move into digital. He might not have exited WPP, the agency group he founded, out of choice, but his successor Mark Read is almost certainly ...