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For the directors of M&C Saatchi, wrestling with a major accounting issue – chiefly booking fees too early that’s led to them making a £6.4m provision – it may seem all a bit like déjà vu. Back in 1995 when ...

Car advertisers are producing some rum stuff these days – maybe connected to the seismic changes taking place in the industry. They’re either trying to sell something new – “lifestyle” choices as in BMW’s new campaign from Serviceplan yesterday – ...

Oh dear, M&C Saatchi shares tumbled 20 per cent today after the quoted agency disclosed it had miscounted £4.9m of revenue. This included counting outstanding fees as revenue and non-performing assets like old software on its balance sheet. M&C is ...

BMW is running a big global campaign from Serviceplan Campaign International – ‘Choose your X’ to try to inject some life into its by now rather venerable X Series SUVs. It’s presented, as many other cars are these days, as ...

Waste bags are hardly exciting but they’re quite top of mind just now – as everyone agonises about waste destroying the planet, the oceans, the universe you name it. So Clorox may be right to go big time with a ...

Someone, somewhere must have thought of putting coffee in a bag – but ground coffee? In the Nespresso era it’s a sensible enough move so Taylors of Harrogate has done so – with another gently amusing effort from Lucky Generals ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has added a third major leg to its business, buying what it calls Europe’s largest influencer agency IMA to merge with its MediaMonks digital content business. Both are based in Amsterdam. S4 also owns the MightyHive ...

Is Anomaly a success or not? In particular its London outpost? It’s working for Unilever on something or other globally and now it’s been hired by Vodafone tasked with “providing strategic and creative insight for Vodafone’s global campaigns and initiatives, ...

Sue Higgs is a group creative director at Grey London. Desert Island Ads From the school of the bleeding obvious, it would appear the world has gone to hell in a handcart. But I’m no Laura Kuenssberg, I’m a mere ...