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Yes there are quite a lot of them and this Friday (August 27) BBC director general Mark Thompson delivers the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International TV Festival where he is expected to answer them. The coalition government has so ...

Switzerland’s venerable UBS bank took a huge hit in the credit crunch, writing off SFr60bn ($58bn) and losing SFr $200bn of customer deposits. This last exodus was caused in part by the US government demanding and getting hitherto confidential information ...

Centerview is a US-based private equity and advisory operation specialising in consumer goods companies and it’s being retained by companies all over the place who are convinced that stock market values don’t reflect the value of the other companies they’d ...

Apple is closing its Quattro mobile ads business at the end of September, choosing to concentrate on its new iAds offer only available on iPhones and iPads. Apple bought Quattro Wireless for $250m earlier this year, a deal that is ...

There’s no holding back Cadbury (Kraft or no Kraft) and its Glass and a Half production team at Saatchi & Saatchi. Its latest opus comes all the way from Saatchi Johannesburg and features an intrepid ostrich taking to the air ...

Well probably because it’s the biggest. But in the last episode of AMC’s Mad Men ad drama character Kenneth Cosgrove opined thus: “It’s the worst agency I’ve ever seen. The worst. My mother was a nurse at the state hospital ...

For what seems like decades agencies and trade bodies like the UK’s IPA have been beating themselves up trying to persuade clients to spend more – or like they used to do. Advertise in a recession says the IPA at ...

Two interesting trends emerged today when Poundland, the discount store group that sells over 3,000 items for £1 each, produced spectacular results — pre-tax profits up from £8.6 million to £19.8 million, with sales rising by 28.9 per cent to ...

As reports suggest the News of the World will erect a paywall in October, followed by the Sun, there are ominous rumblings from the media buying fraternity about News International’s worth as a digital brand, now that its unique users ...