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Research used to be seen as a rather gentlemanly business, boffins beavering away on their inquiries and only interrupted now and then by the tedious business of selling their product to someone. But that was then. It’s a rather different ...

Namely appearing as ‘Pudding Face’ in a new poster campaign by Crispin Porter+Bogusky for Jell-O, one of which was conveniently erected outside BBH’s offices in New York. Give Hart credit, he takes it on the chin even though he thinks ...

CNN talk show host Piers Morgan has mounted a spirited defence against accusations that he was implicated in phone hacking as editor of the Daily Mirror (and before that as editor of News of the World) but it’s pretty clear ...

Chevrolet is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a carmaker (presumably the first ones were preceded by a red flag) and the venerable marque figures high on the priority list of General Motors CMO Joel Ewanick. Among other things he would ...

If anyone had suggested a couple of years ago that the revival strategy for McCann Erickson, still just about the biggest agency network in the world, would depend on all things Swedish they would have been greeted with incomprehension, ridicule ...

Milk isn’t very exciting is it but Wieden+Kennedy London keeps extracting the maximum out of the stuff with its campaign for Arla’s Cravendale. First we had ‘cats with thumbs’ and now it asks the obvious but intriguing question; who first ...

Without the UK’s Guardian newspaper we would probably never have learned the full story about phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World (although the New York Times has also done some fine work). In the UK anyway the ...

Centrica-owned British Gas is, we learn, planning to ‘ramp up‘ its marketing activity to try to counter the unpopularity it’s incurring for raising its gas prices by 18 per cent and electricity prices by 16 per cent despite making £270m ...

Not very much of the Elvis Presley classic alas but the opening few bars herald the return of Fiat (the new owner of Chrysler of course) to the US market with its cute Fiat 500, its revamp of 1957’s iconic ...