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The UK coalition government, comprised of Tories led by David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne with a tail of increasingly reluctant Liberal Democrats, has been completely sandbagged today by Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott (hardly a household name) resigning over ...

We’ve complained here before about the miserabilist tone of much charity advertising. There’s, like, nothing positive in them or even, dare one say it, fun. Many readers think we’re mad of course (probably rightly). This is more like it, from ...

Well you have to ask, Y&R Advertising CEO Hamish McLennan (pictured) is on his way, following hard in the footsteps of other WPP operating company panjamdrums Paul Taaffe at Hill & Knowlton and Doug Checkeris at Mediacom in the US. ...

Ron Collins who died on Monday aged 72 was best-known for his role as one of the founders of Wight Collins Rutherford Scott in 1979. The agency was one of the leading lights of the 1980s in the UK and, ...

Which probably isn’t what Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook crew want to read. But according to Columbia University professor Sudhir Venkatesh Facebook has increased its share of the hookers market, overtaking Craigslist as the “leading online recruitment space” for sex ...

So there you are, researcher Nielsen confirms USA Today’s viewer poll more or less with Pepsico’s array of brands led by Doritos winning in the recall stakes. Most-liked was VW’s Little Darth Vader ad which, taken together with the doggy ...

The deckchairs on the Titanic, aka Guardian Media Group, were reshuffled again today with managing director Tim Brooks, in years gone by one of the founders of Media Week, being made redundant. This is presumably part of new CEO Andrew ...

Those old troupers are everywhere this week, there’s Jennifer Lopez for Gillette Venus, Liz Hurley for Groupon and even dear old JR Hartley making a comeback (sort of). And now our old friends Dita von Teese and Thierry Henry are ...

Consumer deals company Groupon is in the hottest part of the charitable soup kitchen over its three Super Bowl spots that (mildly) spoofed charitable causes, Tibet, whales and the rain forests. Groupon and agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky clearly made ...