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The BBC’s Panorama current affairs programme is planning to broadcast an edition on November 29 examining corruption in FIFA, the body that runs world football. On December 2 the twenty-odd delegates of FIFA who will make the decision about the ...

UK high street bookmaker William Hill is looking for a new agency for the third time in a year according to Campaign, a sign that it’s more comfortable placing each way bets than backing winners. It’s leaving The Bank which ...

It sounds like How To Get Your Ex Boyfriend Back And Keep Him another triumph for Steve jobs as advertisers sign up in droves to Apple’s iAds mobile advertising platform as it prepares for its European launch, but it will ...

A new survey by Firefly Millward Brown shows that clients are still struggling to market their brands successfully in social media despite pouring an increasing amount of money into it. The survey, which FMB claims is the first global study, ...

Richard Horwood, once a director of Trinity Mirror, now at Blink TV and a former sidekick of Kelvin McKenzie at Live TV!, has made the first serious bid to start a local TV network in the UK, a key part ...

You can’t beat a conference in Barcelona to attract the top talent at this time of year and the Morgan Stanley TMT talk-fest on at the moment has attracted, inter alia, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell and News Corporation’s James Murdoch. ...

You probably thought that was the way life insurance companies, indeed any insurance company, operated. You hand over money to insure against misfortune and they pay up. Sadly of course they don’t, arguing the toss about any claim at all ...

Ever since Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy decided not to retire the French marcoms group has been in rampant rabbit mode, snapping up agencies here there and everywhere. Now it’s bought Eastwei Relations in China along with Swedish founder Johan ...

Beyonce has made a sexy commercial for the launch of her new Heat fragrance for Coty and the UK’s ad watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority has banned its transmission before 7.30, apparently because it looks as though her untethered boobs ...