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You may have noticed that Christmas and the festive season is a touch commercial these days so the purveyors of paying mechanisms are joining in too. Here’s PayPal from France’s Buzzman with a big international campaign featuring “Uncle Awesome.” While ...

Adam&eveDDB is making its customary strong finish to the year in the week its latest John Lewis ad debuts, winning Booking.com against strong competition Anomaly and 72andSunny. Booking.com, headquartered in Amsterdam, has been with Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam for the past three ...

Jerry Buhlmann has surprised the industry by quitting his role as CEO of Dentsu Aegis. He is only 59, which is young compared to John Wren at Omnicom (66) and Michael Roth at Interpublic (72). We also know that Buhlmann ...

The&Partnership’s Matt Deacon and Ben Fallows (below), the team behind Argos’ ‘Christmas Fool’ campaign, are keeping an eye on the Christmas ads for us. Here’s their first pick, Iceland’s ‘Rang-tan.’ It was a really smart decision not replacing ‘Rang-tan’ when ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital – aka MediaMonks – has morphed from a peanut to a coconut already. Peanut, you may recall, was how himself described his new venture in relation to his old one WPP but now he says ...

Campaign’s Jeremy Lee tells an extraordinary tale of a group of “white straight British male creatives” who are accusing JWT London of discrimination when they were made redundant after complaining about remarks made by female creative director Jo Wallace, to ...

Essence CEO EMEA Nick Baughan has joined the agency brain drain to tech/social media, joining Facebook as director of agencies in the UK and Ireland. Baughan (below), who’s worked for GroupM media agencies for 13 years, will be a big ...

There’s a lot of emotion around at Christmas – much of it of the ersatz variety you can buy in a packet – so it takes a deft touch from client and agency to make it work for you. Here ...

Brands seem to need a cause these days, and Coty’s Rimmel London has chosen to take on the cyber bullies of the beauty world with its #IWILLNOTBEDELETED campaign, featuring 14 real people, each of whom has a story to tell. ...