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Hope all these animals are earning danger money: recently we had a stray deer crashing a car for GoCompare and now it’s a sheep whose life flashes before it to show off the braking capabilities of Subaru’s Forester SUV. Didn’t ...

Pepsi has a new tag line “That’s What I Like,” which may be one of those things that means far more to the company internally than consumers out there (like McDonald’s now venerable ‘I’m lovin’ it’ – don’t forget the ...

At various times WPP, as have the other ad holding companies, has been accused of being a boys’ club but no more it seems. Mark Read’s new look empire has hired Cannes Can: Diversity Collective founder Adrianne Smith (below) as ...

Is Veganuary any better than ‘Dry January?’ Anyway it seems to have caught some imaginations, the weekend’s colour supps were full of vegan recipes. Heinz can clearly spot an opportunity so it’s running a ‘Beans Meanz Vegan’ spin on the ...

Founders Frank Bryant and James Copley to assume Group COO and UK CEO roles. All part of the Talon group’s vision for a more agile service offering to drive client satisfaction and, ultimately, growth. Talon, the independent OOH agency, announces ...

Global Out of Home advertising is set to outstrip newspaper and magazine combined ad sales for the first time in 2020 according to new WPP’s GroupM. It expects Out of Home spending to reach $40.6bn in 2020, $4bn more than ...

Here’s what we used to call a PR blitz, Public Health England along with Every mind Matters and the Football Association’s Heads Up campaign combining for a one-minute film about the importance of mental health to be shown before the ...

Global mergers and acquisitions activity in adland slowed markedly in 2019 according to new figures from consultancy R3 Worldwide. R3 clocked 489 deals worth a total $27.7bn in 2019, down 15 per cent on the previous year. North America was ...

Droga5’s debut for GoCompare featured long-serving frontman Gio Compario, telling a tale (not singing one) about an errant tree. It looked like a transition from Gio to something else but, no, he’s back – this time falling foul of a ...