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TalkTalk is partnering with Bauer Media to create a four month cross platform campaign aimed at time poor, TV hungry audiences. The deal has been brokered by The&Partnership’s media agency m/SIX. Designed to alleviate ‘Netflix syndrome’ – defined as a ...

A big TV campaign is always a big things for client and agency, maybe more so now as they’re no longer the staple diet of marketing in the digital age. Sometimes you can try too hard: so far this year ...

VML London ECD Harsh Kapadia began his career as an art director at JWT Mumbai before moving to JWT Melbourne and New York where he worked on brands including Kleenex, Smirnoff, Nestle and Rolex. He joined VML in 2012. Desert ...

Japanese advertising’s second biggest group, Hakuhodo Holdings, seems to have been quietly building a pretty credible collection of agencies, called Kyu, outside of its homeland. Kyu, which is mostly based in North America, has appointed AMV BBDO’s former chairman, Farah ...

The ‘Smarter as Standard’ 3-part video series focuses on the launch of Talon’s ‘Smarter as Standard’ manifesto, the role of automation in smarter planning in OOH, and the use of data in smarter planning in OOH. Back in March we ...

Freeview and agency Anomaly would have us believe that the UK’s Freeview gives us a ride on the ‘Free Love Freeway,’ which I guess it does as you don’t have to pay for it. Vocalisation by Ricky Gervais/David Brent – ...

US cable and telecoms giant Comcast’s £30bn “win” of Sky against competition from Rupert Murdoch’s Fox is unlikely to have many major short term effects although Comcast has just acquired the most expensive customers in history (Sky has 23 million ...

The Wall Street Journal reckons WPP is on the way to merging Y&R, WPP’s biggest acquisition at a mind-boggling $4.7bn 18 years ago, with VML its second-biggest digital network after Wunderman. Wunderman has been playing a bigger role in big ...

WPP’s Y&R has been picking up a number of accounts in the US to add to its big win of Puma in China. The latest is Amtrak which will be handled through a new “Amtrak Partnership” also featuring WPP’s Wunderman, ...