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Martin Sorrell has maintained the love of a good analogy that he famously developed while CEO of WPP. He used them freely as he pronounced on the future of ad agency holding companies and the state of WPP during an ...

Oh dear, as we observed earlier it’s turning into a terrible week for WPP and its new CEO Mark Read. Hard on the heels of losing a big chunk of $4bn Ford’s creative and global media for GSK and United ...

Burger King – which says it still believes in agencies rather than bespoke teams, good for them – is riding to the rescue of redheads in Argentina. Why? They’re deemed to be bad luck, prompting men who see them to ...

WPP’s new country manager Karen Blackett (below) has been appointed by UK PM Theresa May as a “race equality business champion.” The estimable Blackett, formerly boss of WPP’s giant media agency MediaCom in the UK, has been chosen by the ...

If we could stand back from the world and look backwards and forwards we might get a clearer perspective of what is happening in the world of advertising and marketing; to some not a particularly worthy consideration for intelligent people ...

It’s Campaign’s 50th birthday and the venerable mag celebrated by persuading 60 or so ad folk (not all venerable) to hang around in Soho. See who you recognise. I toiled there for a few years not quite that long ago ...

Not matter whatever is said publicly within the WPP world and GTB, the outcome of the Ford review with be hurting a lot of people. Not least because the flagship “creative” account is going to BBDO with Wieden+Kennedy as the ...

MulllenLowe London has landed a significant win, the Co-op Bank, the UK’s seventh larges lender. It is believed to have pitched against Leo Burnett, the Co-op’s supermarket agency, and Mother in a review run by Murphy Cobb. The Co-op Bank ...

This is Amazon Prime Video’s first real brand advertising campaign, and it cleverly taps into the box set bingeing culture by imagining what might happen when a viewer gets too immersed in a show. A downtrodden woman learns to be ...