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In a digital age it’s always useful to remind oneself of the standard of the best print journalism and the New Yorker (now online too, of course) is a good place to look. Here’s author Ken Auletta on Sir Martin ...

MullenLowe UK CEO Dale Gall is leaving after just 18 months in the hot seat, to be replaced by Jeremy Hine, a 20-year MullenLowe veteran. Gall, who came from then Lowe Group’s digital agency Profero, say he’s moving outside the ...

Former Channel 4 boss and St Luke’s founder David Abraham is bouncing back on the scene with the year’s most significant start-up, cross-discipline creative outfit Wonderhood Studios. Wonderhood claims it will forge a new production model by “bringing together skills ...

WPP’s biggest rival Omnicom kept its head above water in the first quarter of 2017 with revenues up 1.2 per cent to $3.6bn with organic growth year-on-year of 2.4 per cent. Profits rose 9.2 per cent to $264m. It did ...

Karmarama’s World Cup ad for BetVictor could be seen as an “up yours” to Accenture, the management consultancy that bought the agency at the end of 2016. The spot starts with a doom-laden message which could be seen in a ...

I have recently read two books on art. In one, William Gompertz suggests that all education should adopt the approach of art schools, which is to learn how to question, not simply to learn to regurgitate for exams. Learning to ...

When the CEO and founder of a big public company resigns in a hurry over allegations of “personal misconduct,” seemingly involving some money, you might expect shareholders to be apprised of the result of the investigation. At the very least ...

A new CMO usually means a pitch but these days CMOs seem to want a new model agency relationship too. New Volkswagen CMO Jochen Sengpiehl (VW Group has a new CEO in Herbert Diess too) has announced he wants to ...

Exactly a year ago bumped into Johnny Hornby and Mark Read (newly-anointed joint COO of WPP with Andrew Scott) at a lunch where Hornby inquired of Read what it felt like to be the heir apparent to Sir Martin Sorrell. ...