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We don’t know yet whether the Tokyo Olympics will be a damp squib, a disaster or a triumph of the Olympian spirit. It had better be the latter for a number of big US advertisers who are throwing zillions of ...

More sustainability (see Desert Island Ads): this time for Hendrick’s Gin on UK bus shelters adorned with cucumbers and roses so you can smell Hendrick’s’ cucumber and rose aroma. Plus you can press a doorbell – ‘Press for the Peculiar’ ...

Accenture Interactive’s Karmarama has hired Vix Jagger and Pablo González de la Peña (below) as joint ECDs. Jagger was a creative director at Anomaly London, Gonzales a creative director and head of art at BBH. The two worked together four ...

Three of the big ad holding companies have posted spectacular post-pandemic bouncebacks in the first half of 2021, in effect a free hit as Q2 2020 saw advertisers across the world slashing budgets. Even so the numbers look pretty impressive. ...

Engine owner Lake Capital is reportedly trying to sell the mini-marcoms business, including Engine Creative, formerly WCRS, for £100m through Lazards – a quarter of its original mooted sale price a few years ago. Lake Capital, a big Silicon Valley ...

Three out of five French consumers think brands make insincere claims about supposed purpose in their ads according to a survey by BVA for Paris ad agency Babel. So Babel, with directors Emma + Elliot from production company Birth has ...

Can holding company CCOs actually make a difference or a are they, as some say of politicians, destined to fail? For the former it probably depends on how you assess their impact. Under former global CCO John O’Keefe WPP appeared ...

McDonald’s, in the UK anyway, isn’t having any of that post-lockdown “it’s all business as usual” nonsense, sticking with ‘Fancy a McDonald’s’ from Leo Burnett, depicted as a private, somewhat intimate pleasure. Not a big Mac as we know it ...

There’s something relentless about VCCP and it’s just snaffled yet another account: Pret A Manger’s global “omnichannel” business. Omnichannel meaning the coffee/sandwich shop’s move into areas like takeaways and a new coffee app, global meaning nascent businesses in France and ...