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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 ...

One of the ironies of the digital era is that the tech companies that have, among other things, supposedly written the obituary of big, mass audience TV campaigns, are falling over themselves to compete with – big, mass audience TV ...

Holding company CCOs – once defined as adland’s most impossible job – seem back in fashion and Dentsu International boss Wendy Clark has posted a clear sign of her intent by luring FCB’s Fred Levron (below) to the new (as ...

Toyota is continuing its love affair with robots, this time to support Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes. Four competitors have been sent HSRs (Human Support Robots) which – ungrateful so-and-so’s that they are – they use for mundane tasks rather ...

Yesterday was so-called “Freedom Day” in the UK when all the remaining Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were supposed to be scrapped – except, of course, they haven’t been. Dithering PM Boris Johnson (every time he makes his mind up some senior ...