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Grey London, doubtless smarting from the loss of long-standing client Lucozade to adam&eveDDB and the departure of high profile CCO Vicki Maguire to Havas, has hired two new creative directors – Matt Moreland and Chris Clarke from BBH (below). Which, ...

Saatchi & Saatchi is doing pretty well out of BT in its various manifestations. It’s handled BT’s EE for years (to the heartfelt thanks of Kevin Bacon fans), just produced a more than capable new BT corporate campaign and now ...

Interpublic’s organic growth slowed in Q3, up just 1.4 per cent although net revenue increased by 8.7 per cent to hit $2.06bn. IPG’s organic growth for the year to date is now 3.5 per cent, still on target to hit ...

Lively marcoms group MSQ Partners is launching a new media agency – Walk-In Media – headed by in-demand media exec Simon Davis. Davis resigned as CEO of Blue449 (Walker Media as was) after nine years as owner Publicis Groupe tried ...

HP (Hewlett-Packard as was) would prefer that you printed your pics of loved ones (or anyones) rather than shared them in the mire of social of social media where much is fake and nearly all is insincere. Goodby Silverstein & ...

Publicis UK, which sits on top of Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and the Publicis agency under country manager Annette King, is looking a lot like Ogilvy. King was UK boss of Ogilvy Group before moving to Publicis and now ...

London creative agency Mother seems to be making its international network work after a few ups and downs and now its New York office has won TripAdvisor’s global account. Mother also recently won Wrangler globally. TripAdvisor has had its problems ...

With fancy smartphones selling on cameras these days the camera market should be dead by rights – but it isn’t of course (quite.) Why pay a fortune for a top end phone when you can get the real thing, a ...

The John Lewis Christmas ad from adam&eveDDB has become a national event: capturing national media attention and, it’s said, providing JL with £8 of sales for every £1 spent on making it (about a million of them.) In adland the ...