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By Julie Langley Any external candidate to succeed Sir Martin Sorrell as CEO is unlikely to be available to start straight away – at this level many are working to around six months plus notice. That’s a significant hiatus at ...

Here we go then, WPP founder and long-serving CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has resigned in advance of the marcoms giant releasing the findings of its investigation into allegations of “personal misconduct.” He’s to be succeeded, in the short term at ...

The AAR (Advertising Agency Register as was) has ranked VCCP as its top new business agency for the seventh straight year. VCCP, now affiliated to the WPP empire, won 21 pieces of business from all sources in 2017 including Britvic, ...

UK retailers and agencies do family-centric “dramas” in their advertising, the French are a little more adventurous. Here’s Rosapark for Monoprix, hymning the benefits of hands-free delivered shopping, via “the worst song in the world.” Very good but… Are you ...

Joint London taps heavily into the vogue for “authenticity” with an ad for Kettle Chips that celebrates the joy of “real” things: baby’s cheeks, vinyl records, photos, books, arguing over maps, and plenty of kissing. The “real” extends to the ...

Adam&eveDDB’s #TrollingIsUgly campaign provides a graphic demonstration of the potential effects of cyber bullying. Body positive campaigner and social media influencer Chessie King stripped down to her underwear, put up a video on Instagram, and let the trolls do the ...

Another day, another epic commercial from a financial services company that avoids talking about what it actually does. This one for Australian bank Westpac celebrates moments in history when Aussies got together to help each other out. It recreates the ...

They do say that a picture is worth a thousand words and it’s certainly the case in this one of WPP’s currently embattled Sir Martin Sorrell – in best Darth Vader mode – taken by Simon Dawson for Bloomberg. Simon ...

The recent finding that revenue from digital screens now account for more than half of the value of Out of Home advertising confirms what people in the industry have felt for a while – digital is quickly transforming the medium. ...