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I see that Madison Avenue pioneer – and pithy commentator on its Mad Men doings – Jane Maas has died at 86. We’ve reported on her various books and observations here and the New York Times gives her the obit ...

Top ranking AMV BBDO creative teams Mike Crowe and Rob Messeter and Caio Giannella and Diego de Oliveira are joining the creative brain drain to Apple in California. Crowe and Messeter are joining as creative directors on iPhone and Giannella ...

Hope springs eternal among agencies, spending months and lots of money pitching for business that may become business – but often does not. A handful of agencies plugged away at House of Fraser right up to the wire, even though ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 Capital has raided his old firm WPP for its new Asia Pacific region boss, Michel de Rijk, who joins from WPP media operation GroupM. De Rijk (left) was global chief growth officer at GroupM’s Performance ...

How many times should you expect someone to watch a commercial, to get the point over? Here’s Apple’s Christmas effort from TBWA’s Media Arts Lab – ‘Share Your Gifts’ – plugging (I think) Macbooks – pretty expensive Christmas prezzie. Then ...

Author Michael Fehr has been 95 per cent blind since birth – so has never driven – but here he is driving a new BMW 8 Series Coupé at speeds of up to 180 kmh on a test track in ...

Who’d be an ad executive these days? Your clients don’t like you (even the ones who think you’re OK think you’re charging to much), you’re accused of sexism and harassment on a regular basis and if you’re a really unlucky ...

Holding company MDC Partners may be in a permanent state of seeming crisis but Anomaly, the agency founded by the UK’s Carl Johnson, seems to sail serenely on, oblivious to the burning timbers and falling masonry. Now CEO Johnson is ...

For most of this decade, the interest around Christmas ads has centred on John Lewis and whether any of its retail rivals can match it. 2018 looked like it was going to be more of the same. Then came Rang-Tan. ...