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Campaign is celebrating its 50th birthday with a big glossy special edition (below) – worth the somewhat numbing £17.50 if you can find one. There are highlights, lowlights, some amazing work (very little of it recent alas) and some amazing ...

WPP is in advanced talks to buy the Financial Times’s London headquarters at One Southwark Bridge for £93m, continuing the trend of giant centralised HQs in adland. It already has similar operations in Amsterdam and Toronto. At the same time ...

Mobile networks used to be a premium sector for creative advertising, but the brands have long ceased to be distinctive. EE’s long-running Kevin Bacon campaign has fallen off lately, and O2 is trying something new with George the Poet instead ...

Has Global, now one of the UK’s biggest media owners, overpaid for Exterion Media which handles the giant TfL London tube and trains poster contract? Global is reckoned to have paid Platinum Equity £450m for Exterion, which also has other ...

Sainsbury’s is getting its Halloween retaliation in first in the UK with a lively effort from Wieden+Kennedy featuring the work of some of film director Wes Anderson’s star animators. Haven’t seem much from Sainsbury’s recently, maybe it’s been too busy ...

Of all the tanks parked on holding company lawns so-called “in-housing” is probably the biggest threat. Time was when the skills required of an advertising agency were only to be found in an ad agency but when most client money ...

Are gaming ads proper ads? They’re obviously an excuse for an agency and its chosen film makers to have fun (and there aren’t many of those these days), with few of the constraints most ads have. BBDO France has gone ...

Social and creative agency eight&four has been appointed by Taiwan-based international restaurant chain Din Tai Fung to launch its first two UK outlets in London. Din Tai Fung specialises in steamed buns – Xiao Long Bao in the vernacular – ...

According to new research from M&A and funding adviser Results International there were 237 M&A deals completed in the marcoms industry in Q3 2018, marking the most active quarter since Q4 2016. Dentsu and WPP were again the two most ...