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Ads of the Year. Trying to remember a good, recent ad is like trying to remember a joke. So I had to scroll through my WhatsApp groups to find the ads that my non-advertising friends shared with me, along with ...

ITV and Uncommon’s “Britain Get Talking” campaign hits just the right note for Christmas, with this humorous film from Motherland director Simon Hynd. It takes a serious turn at the end without getting preachy. The channel’s favourite celebs have come ...

Dentsu global CEO Wendy Clark has gone back to her former employer DDB to poach a new global chief strategy officer. Alex Hesz, who spent more than 10 years at adam&eveDDB (he joined when adam&eve was still an independent shop), ...

Asda’s venerable George fashion brand is showing signs of life under new Asda owners and agency Impero. Now following a successful back-to-school promotion, it’s entering the Christmas lists with some rather surprising guests, including initially trepidatious trans Jabarii. “Tis the ...

Go-go marketing services group MSQ has bought design firm Elmwood to merge with venerable Holmes & Marchant to create what it calls a new global design agency model, trading globally as Elmwood. The new entity will have over 200 staff ...

We overlooked WPP media agency Essence’s win of the non-digital parts of Google without a pitch (doubt that anyone was surprised, even Omnicom’s PHD) but the all-conquering tech-based agency has added an intriguing newcomer – the UK’s venerable Royal Horticultural ...

There’s little doubt where WPP CEO Mark Read sees the future: ecommerce or commerce as WPP likes to call it (the ‘e’ is clearly so last year.) WPP has bought UK-based Cloud Commerce Group, described as a technology company that ...

The Co-op and agency Lucky Generals are eschewing Santa and all his works this year for a tie-up with ITV featuring the Feltham Community Fridge, a place in London where locals can donate and take away food items. With Dermot ...

The Tan Hill Inn is Britain’s highest pub, and the location for adam&eveDDB’s 2017 “Snowed In” Christmas spot, in which villagers gather for a drink at the 17th century inn and find themselves trapped by the weather into putting on ...