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Embattled WPP CEO Mark Read would doubtless like to know what’s in Michael Roth’s secret sauce at Interpublic. IPG Q3 organic growth was five per cent in the US and six per cent in Europe, way ahead of everyone else, ...

Armed services ads on both sides of the Atlantic have traditionally tried hard to skip the obvious, to wit if they give you a gun you’re likely to have to shoot or be shot at. No such beating about the ...

New WPP CEO Mark Read (below) faces one of the less than joyous occasions that go with the new job on Thursday when he updates shareholders and others on WPP’s Q3 performance. Analysts expect revenue and profit to be down ...

Mother has won the big Sky pitch to run what looks like a corporate campaign for the UK satellite broadcaster, just bought by US cable giant Comcast for £30bn. Mother pitched against Sky roster agencies Brothers and Sisters and WCRS ...

OK, that’s enough agonising over the state of adverts and agencies (see today’s other stories), let’s look at a campaign that clearly works – judging by the amount of money Nestle has thrown at it. It’s George Clooney’s latest reprise ...

DDB global CEO Wendy Clark has resigned from Time’s Up, an organisation pledged to combat harassment and inequality at work, after admitting that she engaged former Droga5 CCO as a freelance to work on the ongoing VW global pitch. Royer ...

Master of the soundbite Sir Martin Sorrell is getting his knickers into something of a twist as he roams the world plugging new company S4C and its first buy MediaMonks. To wit, that he’s not interested in “creativity.” Sorrell, of ...

We should be in a new golden era of advertising. If anyone from outside our industry were to stumble across our industry titles, conferences, LinkedIn or Twitter posts, they’d be forgiven for thinking that we’re an industry at war with ...

BETC Paris is rightly renowned for many things but Canal+ is perhaps its signature account. BETC is now ultimately owned by Canal+ parent Vivendi so it’s as well to be on top form. Canal+ has what it calls a new ...