If you Google PwC and fines you get a pretty long charge list, fines for mis-auditing companies ranging from BT to giants of the construction world. But the (sometimes inexact) bean counters hoovered up £5bn of revenue in 2022 and ...
Read More »Publicis Groupe EMEA’s new COO spent 23 years at WPP
After 23 years at WPP, most recently as CEO of GroupM EMEA and country chair of Turkey, Demet Ikiler has moved to Publicis Groupe as COO for EMEA. Before joining WPP in 2000, Ikiler, who is expected to spend plenty ...
Read More »Saatchi and Saatchi wades into Roe v. Wade
Saatchi & Saatchi has entered the Roe v. Wade abortion lists again with yet another use of its iconic pregnant man ad, this time with ‘50 years of men making decisions over women’s bodies.’ The ad shows the male judges ...
Read More »Ocean Outdoor UK CEO Phil Hall: how digital Out of Home is navigating a tricky economy
1/Ocean is a major Northern Europe media owner. The UK economy is reported to be lagging its European rivals. How is this playing out in Out of Home? We’re seeing a couple of interesting factors at play across 2022 and ...
Read More »Meta puts its stamp on the Rugby World Cup with BETC and partners
Meta is the official social media supplier to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, coming up in France in the autumn, and BETC, Havas Play, Havas Events and Unit9 have been signed up alongside in-house Meta Creative X to expound the ...
Read More »MAA Ad of the Week: Working with Cancer from Publicis
Purpose can be a fine thing in advertising if it really means something – not you Hellmann’s – and Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun has mobilised his own cancer diagnosis to formidable effect including a new film from Publicis Foundation for ...
Read More »BMB wins LTA Youth tennis lead creative role
UK tennis governing body LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) has appointed BMB as lead creative partner for LTA Youth in a mission to get more children playing tennis. This is a hardy perennial as the Wimbledon summer tennis tournament appears on ...
Read More »The&Partnership fights for trans inclusion with charity collective
A Stonewall-led collective of 21 LGBTQA+ charities is fighting to raise awareness of the harm that conversion therapy causes. The&Parntership has got on board, with a new film in support of a full ban on conversion therapies, including for trans ...
Read More »Krispy Kreme’s lightbox brings joy – and low cal doughnuts – to Salford
Gloomy January is upon us, but Krispy Kreme has come to the rescue with an interactive billboard that dispenses light therapy to passers-by in a bid to help combat seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The light-emitting billboard features some cheerful giant ...
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