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The worldwide ad market continues to boom away according to Nielsen, with television accounting for six and a half out of every ten dollars, led by the ongoing boom in emerging markets. Global adspend rose 8.8 per cent to $118 ...

Alas it’s gone, YouTube has pulled the Greenpeace ‘Little Darth Vader’ spoof commercial that spearheaded the environmental group’s assault on giant carmaker Volkswagen for allegedly trying to block emissions legislation. Lucasfilm, headed by Star Wars producer George Lucas, is claiming ...

The UK’s Mail on Sunday thinks so, highlighting the case of Aegis Germany boss Aleksander Ruzicka who was jailed last year for trousering substantial backhanders (or ‘discounts’) from media owners. This sudden interest has been prompted by the likely sale ...

Cannes isn’t the be-all and end-all of the creative world (much as it would like to be so) but the pathetic performance of UK creative agencies in 2011 is really quite staggering. From 275 entries in the film category (the ...

Time was when there was a middle market in UK newspapers, the Daily Mail and Daily Express fighting over the millions of aspiring middle class readers who wouldn’t be seen dead buying the Sun or the Mirror, and didn’t have ...

This is what my eagle-eyed chum Stuart Smith thinks anyway, in a recent post. This is what he writes. As a headline grabber, it isn’t quite up there with the search giant’s big news of the week – ‘Google and ...

A few years ago David Jones, now CEO of Havas as well as Euro RSCG, had what has turned out to be the bright idea of starting the One Young World forum, an event at which the “remarkable young leaders ...

The UK’s Premier Foods is a minnow in the global brands world but the company was a darling of the stock exchange for years as it picked up a string of unwanted brands from other food companies and revived them. ...

WPP won the first Cannes lion for holding company company of the year this year, a vindication of former BBH creative director John O’Keeffe’s input as WPP’s global CCO since he joined in 2008. Among others in what he calls ...