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Here’s an arithmetical problem for City analysts. Why don’t marketing services group Havas’s splendid Quarter Three figures actually add up properly? First, a bit of background. Agency holding company performance has continued in strong recovery mode, despite the rest of ...

Well that’s what it sounds like as the ‘new’ variant for Lynx (known as Axe everywhere in the world apart from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, the UK and, for some reason, China) is called Lynx 2012 – The ...

Radio Soulwax is a new online radio station from Belgian DJs David and Stephan Dewaele (aka Soulwax and 2ManyDJs). This is its launch film, ‘Machine’ and one that is bound to trouble the scorers in 2012’s awards competitions. Be warned, ...

Internet TV has been hyped as the next big thing for ages now – and now maybe it is. Korean TV maker LG has tied up a deal with video advertising company YuMe to add an advertising capability to its ...

Volkswagen has always had good advertising (outside Germany anyway, some creatives from other places would sniff) but it’s mining a rich vein of form at the moment. Here’s ‘Cross country’ from DDB Sydney for the Tiguan 4×4 (with operetta, naturally). ...

“Oh Wow,” as the late, great Steve Jobs might have said. Apple a “digital vampire”, sucking the blood out of the music industry. How so? The sound bite comes from Pete Townshend, The Who’s prolific songster, and inaugural John Peel ...

At the moment it’s a losing bet too: with all the big marcoms companies having now posted their third quarter results WPP is lagging the field with organic growth of just 4.9 per cent, thanks in large measure to a ...

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 ...

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has hardly seemed to be on the side of the angels recently, still suffering the fall-out from the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Among other things this cost it the long-desired $12bn deal to ...