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Is Omnicom – which owns BBDO, TBWA, DDB and Omnicom Media Group among others – doing well or badly? Its shares fell three per cent yesterday when it reported a 3.6 per cent drop in second quarter revenue in Q2 ...

Here’s a viral ad success story from China, poking fun at customers: surely not? Actually it’s from Taiwan for national carrier China Airlines, courtesy of Leo Burnett, and the Chinese language version has over six million YouTube views. Which tells ...

Who’s the best actor in ads? Move over Idris Elba and even Robert De Niro, surely it’s former Man United enfant terrible Eric Cantona? We’ve already had him wowing the ladies of Alsace by pretending to be a farmer and ...

Thinkbox, the UK commercial TV marketing body, has appointed Mother to its creative account. Mother takes over from The Red Brick Road which handled Thinkbox for its first 12 years. Media stays with MediaCom. Thinkbox marketing director Andrew MacGillivray says: ...

Astronauts all over the place this week on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Channel 4 has been running a Moon Landing Live series and it culminates in a programme on Saturday. So 4Creative has produced a ...

St Luke’s has won upmarket British chocolate brand Montezuma’s without a pitch following an agency search carried out by the client. Founded in 2000 Montezuma’s now has a growing network of shops including Brighton, Kingston, Chichester, Winchester and Spitalfields in ...

As Talon Outdoor’s AdTech platforms continue to develop at pace to reach tangible and scalable delivery, Josko Grljevic – Talon’s CTO – outlines the four-point plan that has delivered transformational and intuitive technology solutions. The job of a CTO (T=Transformation) ...

Marketing budgets seem to be blowing hot and cold at the same rate as Boris Johnson’s policy commitments. The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s latest Bellwether Report shows that growth in the first quarter (8.7 per cent) was only temporary, ...

You can’t get hold of the new Mini Electric until next March, but The Brooklyn Brothers has started on the advertising campaign already, with digital and out-of-home ads that sell the feel good factor of owning an electric car. Mini ...