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Aussie agency Cummins & Partners has invented Grant – whom you may recognise from a big Cannes award winner – for a Melbourne awards show. Grant is designed to cope with the strains and stresses of modern agency life. Like ...

And then there were two. UK radio giant Global says it has a binding deal to buy Exterion Media – which holds the London tube advertising contract plus other transport operations outside London – which, added to its recent buys ...

Saw this on TV so no idea which agency did it: It’s for Amazon, “a big collection of small businesses” it says, featuring Glasgow’s Shearer Candles which operates from one shop. But it’s always open on Amazon… Big shot Bezos ...

Production giant Williams Lea Tag has bought Toronto-based digital content and social agency THP. THP operates in North America, the UK and Europe. It is WLT’s second buy since it was bought by private equity firm Advent International. Last month ...

S4C founder and boss Sir Martin Sorrell says he wants to add media analytics and data to the content business he’s already acquired by buying MediaMonks and one name appearing in the frame – which would seem to cover both ...

The&Partnership’s AllTogetherNow (ATN) is running its first digital-based campaign for big new client Avon. The message is that Lip Tattoo is designed for “wherever the night takes you” – which is a bit cheeky for Avon. Actually it means it’s ...

Here’s an ad that should appeal to Royal plant whisperers everywhere (Gloucestershire anyway), for Beck’s Soundpils, a limited edition beer that lets you talk to the actual hops courtesy of a Beck’s booth. By Germany’s Serviceplan International, part of its ...

With the data merchants busily taking over ad agencies, especially at WPP (VML’s absorption of Y&R, Michael Frohlich’s new model army at Ogilvy) there’s much speculation along the lines of, “Can they actually make ads?” WPP’s Wunderman, former home of ...

Ogilvy UK has unveiled most what is to be its new leadership under CEO Michael Frohlich, led by new chief customer officer Clare Lawson (MD in old language one supposes). Lawson is hailed as the agency’s first such CCO although ...