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Is WPP CEO Mark Read planning more agency mergers? Speaking to investors recently Read, alongside the usual stuff about partnering more with tech companies and the surprising revelation that Google was WPP’s second-biggest client, said the mergers of JWT with ...

A new bit of harmful content reached consumers every second on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram between July and September 2019 – 9.2 million examples in total – and that’s despite the platforms removing 620 million pieces before anyone got a ...

BBC director general Tony Hall (aka Lord Hall of Birkenhead, there are some perks in that vale of tears) is stepping down, leaving the job of hanging on to the licence fee in face of a hostile Tory government to ...

As Harry and Meghan prepare to go it alone/together outside the chilly confines of Britain’s royal family there are, inevitably, a number of brands jumping on their bandwagon – presumably for free, for now. Here’s Expedia. While Burger King has ...

Fold7 is making its debut for Kallo with a social and Out of Home campaign, nicely timed for Veganuary with its wall-to-wall coverage of veggie eating and cooking. Kallo is also partnering with veggie chefs Bish Bash Bosh. Kallo makes ...

It may be Veganuary for many but Durex and agency Havas are spinning on venerable ‘Dry January’ with a social, print and OOH continuation of Durex’s ‘Let’s Lube’ campaign which surfaced on TV last year. Dry isn’t necessarily good it ...

Drinks giant Diageo has shortlisted inclumbent Dentsu Aegis’ Carat, Publicis Media and Omnicom’s PHD for its global media planning and buying account, worth an estimated $1bn. Diageo brands include Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Smirnoff. In the pitch, like some other ...

OK, let’s get down to the important stuff. Can the planet – or, more particularly, its wildlife – be saved from the depredations of climate change? According to Volvo and Grey London it can, in this new film which is ...

Publicis Groupe seems to have tightened its grip on BT from AMV BBDO with another effort from Saatchi & Saatchi, this time for BT’s overarching Halo product, its introduction to the much-trumpeted 5G among other things. May be a bit ...