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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg might be Time’s person of the year (following in the celebrated footsteps of Chairman Mao and Josef Stalin among others) but his social network phenomenon is under pressure from (relative) upstart Twitter. The excellent Wall St. ...

Actually we all thought it was becoming more like the Daily Mail, given the presence of former Mail men in top positions including CEO Murdoch MacLennan, Daily editor Tony Gallagher (pictured), Sunday editor Ian MacGregor (those Scots again) and head ...

Well it does if you obey the instructions in its latest German cinema ad for motorbikes and shut your eyes. The Dr Deaths from Munich have found a way to print the letters BMW on the inside of your eyelids ...

Sales of pet products soared in 2010 according to the American Pet Products Association, from a modest $28.5bn in 2009 to an estimated $47.7bn in 2010. And a growing taste among canines (or their owners maybe) for social media is ...

From JWT New York I believe but stranger things have happened. It’s an oldish commercial but it shows how below-the-belt female preoccupations are becoming big business. Good job it isn’t running in the UK because the Daily Mail would have ...

Procurement used to be the prerogative of pimps or procurers, revenue maximisers for prostitutes. Now of course it means the function in client companies of (among many other things) buying marketing services and is probably the main reason why relations ...

European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia has comprehensively cleared News Corporation’s bid for UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB (we’d better start giving it its full moniker). This may or may not influence UK regulator Ofcom which is looking into ‘plurality’ issues. Almunia is ...

This may be the very first time a campaign for air conditioners has risen to the top of the creative heap but Maxi Itzkoff and Mariano Serkin, the creative directors who devised Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi’s Grand Prix ...

Just imagine, you could take an old version of the Queen’s Christmas broadcast and insert a can of Coke or maybe a bottle of Gordon’s. Actually you couldn’t because Gordon’s gin is alcohol (not because it’s the Queen). And some ...