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Publicis Groupe is releasing its first half figures on July 20 when, amongst other things, we might discover if it needs to save the money it’s not spending next year on awards – whatever happens to A1 assistant Marcel. In ...

Uber is one of the pioneers of the so-called gig economy – self-employed whether you like it or not – and it seems determined to take on its many critics in this new campaign from BBH. It’s ostensibly aimed at ...

Would-be inspirational ads featuring sportsmen and women are becoming a genre of their own: notable recent examples include Droga5’s ‘Phelps’ for Under Armour and Wieden+Kennedy ‘Da Da Ding,” featuring what seems to be most of the women in India for ...

How reassuring to see the Cannes juries last week recognize and reward the antithesis to the vacuity of perfume advertising. Kenzo’s playful ‘Mutant Brain’ campaign picked up ten Lions across a number of categories, having successfully stuck two fingers up ...

One of adland’s big beasts Nick Brien, a one-time CEO of Interpublic’s McCann, is rejoining the media mainstream, teaming up with old colleague Jerry Buhlmann, now CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network, as DAN CEO in the US and Americas. Brien ...

Blaming tech companies for the current soul searching being undertaken by the Cannes festival owner Ascential has become a fashionable thing to do. But I think it’s rather unfair. While the oft-quoted Snapchat ferris wheel might well be an example ...

At the time I started to write this review, the world’s third largest holding company, Publicis, announced that they would not be entering anything in next year’s Cannes “Festival of Creativity,” nor indeed in any other awards show. The world’s ...

What to make of the WPP hackattack? One person in London today said that Ogilvy & Mather’s spanking new South Bank HQ had imploded and was last seen floating down the Thames towards Tilbury but I’m not sure I believe ...

Are Cannes Lions an accurate guide to the health of an agency, even a whole industry? Not everyone enters of course and some enter more than others. Publicis agencies won’t be entering any next year. There’s also the point that ...