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French black raspberry liqueur brand Chambord has appointed London independent Brave as its new creative agency following a review run through Creativebrief. Prior to the review Chambord, owned by Brown-Forman Brands, spent four years at Wieden+Kennedy who produced the striking, ...

Former WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell has won the first round with his old company, beating WPP to $300m MediaMonks, a Dutch digital content company. Sorrell has had to bid high though, not just in terms of cash but in ...

One way or another India features heavily in awards these days and here’s another candidate that surely has a Cannes category in waiting. It’s by Dentsu Webchutney for Chakra Tea and the wheeze in question is a tea kettle that ...

Is there a creativity crisis in adland? Good work still fights its way through but it seems to be getting harder. Two necessities for such work are money and the willingness to take a risk: to risk blowing your money ...

The business story of the year in the UK is shaping to be the laying waste of the high street and bigger supermarkets by a combination of online shopping and penal business rates (some £27bn a year). Here and there ...

Summer 2018 is shaping up pretty well thanks to the sunshine and the World Cup, but by Christmas the harsh realities of the pre-Brexit UK economy look set to bring us all back down to earth. John Lewis will scale ...

The&Partnership is rolling out a new “platform” for Toyota’s Aygo town car – ‘Just Go.’ So that’s why it’s called Aygo is it? Always wondered. ‘Just do it’ didn’t do Nike any harm though. There are ads and lots of ...

The Times reckons that Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital is winning the race to buy Dutch digital production company MediaMonks for €300m while Sky News reports WPP is alleging that Sorrell was “heavily engaged” in discussions with MediaMonks last year ...

PrideAM is a lobby group pushing for fairer representation of LGBT+ people in ads and in the agencies that create them. So it’s produced a “Creative Review” of ads doing it right and doing it wrong. The panel included M&C ...