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Yes, Kanye West has launched his bid to be president of the US, setting himself up as a rival to one-time pal Donald Trump and hoping to take votes off Democrat candidate Joe Biden. West, husband of Kim Kardashian, has ...

5.20pm. Ten minutes ‘til showtime and I’m nervous. I always am at these IPA Awards, even when I don’t have a dog in the fight. They’re the advertising Olympics for me, you see, thanks to the extraordinary scrutiny of its ...

In 2018 BBH won the IPA’s Effectiveness Grand Prix for Audi, and in 2020 the agency – working with MediaCom – bagged the biennual award again, thanks to the Tesco ‘Every Little Helps’ campaign. The pic is of BBH joint ...

WPP’s Grey has won a role as Carlsberg’s “global advertising partner” although the Danish brewer says it will continue to work with local agencies too – good news for the UK’s Fold7 presumably, among others. Grey has handled Carlsberg’s Tuborg ...

Jack Daniels, claimed to be the world’s most valuable spirits brand, may have another ‘Wassup’ on its hands with “I always wanted to do that,” the centrepiece of its first global campaign ‘Make it Count.’ From energy BBDO. The campaign ...

Leagas Delaney has won lots of awards in its time but contributing to a Nobel Prize is something special. Longstanding client the World Food Programme (WFP) has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for its contribution to bettering conditions for ...

The latest Media and Marketing Podcast, hosted by John Reynolds, features newly-appointed Newsworks MD Jo Allan. Allan is a former senior executive at Dentsu Aegis Network. Newsworks is the marketing agency for British national newspapers. Listen to the podcast here.

Max Klymenko is an economics and technology researcher at Accenture. He’s also a TikTok “edutainer” with two million followers, all eager to try out his “simple persuasion tricks to help you get exactly what you want.” Klymenko knows a lot ...

More upheavals in the increasingly busy world of media consulting: former FirmDecisions boss Stephen Broderick (below) and colleagues Fiona Foy, Tony Whittingstall and David Reid are joining rival MediaPath Compliance. Firm Decisions is the auditing and compliance division of listed ...