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End of life care isn’t a subject that raises a smile usually but Michael Douglas and Danny Devito give it a go in this ad encouraging people to sign POLST forms (Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) from the non-profit Goals ...

The Uk’s Asda – which owner Walmart is trying to spruce up for a partial sale or flotation – is taking discounters Aldi and Lidll (and Tesco) full on by bringing back its “pocket tap” price campaign, harking back to ...

Everybody expects the US presidential election ad campaigns to get dirtier and dirtier and now the anti-Trump Republican Lincoln Project has ventured below the belt with this ad – ‘Adultery’ – listing Trump’s alleged sexual misdemeanours. Pointedly it’s dug up ...

Celebrities and athletes have helped create a “digital first” logo for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, with various names offering up their own versions of the “A,” all contributing to a dynamic image that is in constant movement. It’s ...

A couple of years ago, Kim Kardashian went to the White House and persuaded Donald Trump to let Alice Johnson out of prison, where she was serving a life sentence for cocaine trafficking. A few days ago, Trump gave Alice ...

WPP’s Mark Read said he had a $4bn billing pipeline of new business recently and details are coming thick and fast from WPP HQ. On top of a big Whirlpool win in EMEA WPP has now landed Zespri International, which ...

Marcoms group MSQ has completed the acquisition of smaller rival Be Heard Partnership in a deal with an enterprise value of £20.6m (which includes debt.) Be Heard has now delisted from the London Stock Exchange. The deal creates a group ...

Some good news for WPP boss Mark Read as he battles an army of irate pensioners: WPP has won washing machine giant Whirlpool’s EMEA communications business with one of those multi-agency constructs WPP and the other big holding companies are ...

Mark Read (below) has shown a fairly sure touch in his time as CEO of WPP – not least in his public pronouncements. But he let an angry and potentially highly damaging cat out of the bag when he observed ...