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The Cambridge Analytica affair may be the biggest threat to Facebook to date; far more so than Russian meddling in the last US Presidential Election (the Cambridge Analytica gang were much cleverer in the way they harvested data from, virtually, ...

Ikea’s latest work is a TV game show called “Matchers Keepers,” which works a bit like Mr and Mrs, but for flatmates and families in place of married couples. Instead of being asked about their personal habits, contestants are probed ...

“It’s like Glastonbury for Geeks.” Before I got on the plane from muggy England to Austin, Texas, that’s what I was told to expect of South by Southwest (SXSW), the world’s leading tech and innovation conference. Glastonbury for geeks. Possibly ...

On-site agency Oliver has well and truly upset the agency applecart over the past few years, its biggest coup is setting up 30 or so such agencies for Unilever, and now WPP-owned digital giant Wunderman is biting back with its ...

We noted recently that AMV BBDO was on a big new business drive and so it is – with a vengeance. Last week it won Samsung Electronics in the UK and now it’s won both Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays ...

When I first set foot in the USA in 1962 after disembarking from the Queen Mary as a snot nosed student, I had been devious enough to have wangled myself an interview with the great British man of advertising, David ...

Media consultancy ID Comms has been looking at the trend (or desire) for marketers to move media trading in-house and, based on 130 responses from brands spending a total of $30bn on media globally plus the big media agencies, discovered ...

Now that the grid girls are gone and Bernie Ecclestone has taken a back seat, Formula 1 at last has a chance to shed its macho, petrolhead culture and reinvent itself as the global media and entertainment brand it longs ...

AMV BBDO has landed Samsung as a client, making its debut last night (Thursday) with a number of spectacular laser shows on famous London landmarks: ‘The Night Reimagined.’ The shows support the UK launch of Samsung’s new Galaxy S9 and ...