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It may be tin hats time at S4Capital, Sir Martin Sorrell’s digital-only creation, but the great dealmaker is still on the case, striking a deal to buy LA-based tech services company TheoremOne. S4 has lost half its market value since ...

Nice to see a bit of classic animation – with some modern twists, like an iPhone – by BBH for Weetabix and its long-running ‘Have you had yours?’ campaign. This time, though, it’s the wolf who’s been fortified. Weetabix head ...

Libresse, best known for its work with AMV BBDO, has turned to Mother London to boost awareness of its Intimawear period pants, which replace the need for traditional sanitary products like tampons and towels. The work, which runs across Europe ...

S4Capital’s share price headed sharply downwards this morning following a good kicking in the influential UK Sunday Times yesterday (subscription required.) ‘How chaotic accounting engulfed Sir Masrtin Sorrell’s S4 Capital empire’ was the headline, referring to the essentially book-keeping problems ...

Coca-Cola appointing WPP as its lead agency for just about everything last year was probably just about the most significant account move and the mighty resources of WPP’s newly-minted Open X team have now produced a new global “platform” for ...

First we get Judi Dench in NCA’s MoneySuperMarket ad, and now two other fine British actors — Helen Mirren and Richard E Grant — are in VCCP’s new campaign for Cadbury. Mirren and Grant’s appearances are only fleeting, and the ...

London newbie New Commercial Arts is hitting its stride now, a blockbuster with Judi Dench for MoneySuperMarket and now its Alzheimer’s Society debut in Dementia Action Week. The line is: “It’s not called getting old it’s getting ill,” underlining that ...

Someone’s come up with a scheme to abate the cost of living crisis at last – not the hapless UK government or the Bank of England (both of whom seem to be sleepwalking into a recession) – but MoneySuperMarket and ...

This one’ll cheer you up. The&Partnership for British Gas Energy Trust promoting its helpline for people who can’t afford to keep the heating on as energy prices (including British Gas charges) go through the roof. A hostage to fortune if ...