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Cannes Lions has banned Russian entries and delegates from the country from this year’s festival following the invasion of Ukraine. Cannes owner Ascential says: “We stand together with our friends in Ukraine and our many partners and community members in ...

Karmarama, now part of Accenture Interactive, has won the Honda UK account after a competitive pitch. Karmarama has had a long relationship with Honda including below the line work and sponsorship duties. Honda is best known in the UK (and ...

Hard to beat a well-crafted poster (and they don’t always have to move around, even in the digital age.) Burger King’s plant-based Whopper from David Madrid has craft in spades, whether or not it sells any taste-alike burgers. Art director ...

A lot going on in the world this week and the doings of advertisers, agencies, media owners and the rest rather pale into insignificance. Here are a few bits though. Actually what caught our attention most (nothing to do with ...

Hats off to WPP CEO Mark Read for speaking at a WACL event on menopause in the workplace. The WPP CEO, keen to keep senior women on board, linked concerns around menopause in the workplace to the talent crisis. He ...

The USP for Galaxy’s new S22 phone is a camera with enhanced night mode, so Mother has joined forces with Glaswegian fashion designer and night club entrepreneur Charles Jeffrey to work on a dream-like ad for the launch. It features ...

CVC Capital Partners bought Unilever’s tea brands (including PG Tips and Liptons) for £4.5bn last year and new entity ekaterra (where do they get them from?) has launched a global media review through consultancy ID Comms, scheduled to complete by ...

Burger King is currently reviewing its US creative and media – likely to be a gruelling affair as it’s controlled by zero-based budget enthusiast 3G Capital whose tentacles also reach into Kraft Heinz and AB InBev – despite winning numerous ...

Laura Jordan Bambach, Grey’s president and CCO, continues to beef up what she calls her “creative pirate ship” with the hiring of David Wigglesworth from Droga5 London as ECD. Since joining Grey in 2020, Jordan Bambach has worked hard to ...