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Ajaz Ahmed’s AKQA Group, part of WPP, is launching purpose-driven agency AKQA Bloom with awarded creatives Jean Zamprogno and Fernando Pellizzaro. The two move from David Miami (also part of the WPP empire.) AKQA Bloom will be based in Miami. ...

AKQA has teamed with UK film producer Matthew Vaughan (Kick Ass, Kingsman, Layer Cake, Eddie The Eagle, Harry Brown, Rocketman, Stardust) to create a new ident for his studio MARV. And, reflecting the uncertain nature of the film business which ...

WPP is back on the acquisition trail, buying a majority stake in design firm Made Thought to form a new entity The New Standard, part of its AKQA empire (AKQA is now the lead company in another relative newbie within ...

Gaming has kind of snook up on the non-gaming world (a reducing space it seems) and now group-chatting platform Discord is making its bid to create a wider general-use community. Does the world need another one? Of course, don’t be ...

WPP is off to a flyer in this year’s (virtual) Cannes Lions – two years of entries – with Grand Prix for Ogilvy’s already celebrated Dove ‘Courage is beautiful’ pandemic campaign in Press and Publishing and David Miami’s ‘Moldy Whopper’ ...

1/In new AKQA Group AKQA and Grey are operating as separate brands, for a time at least. Wouldn’t it have been easier to call it AKQA Grey? Grey, after all, is bigger – at least in terms of headcount. It’s ...

When, if ever, we stop fretting about coronavirus there’s plenty of other things to worry about – like the end of the world for example. Not new of course, most of Christendom was convinced it was going to happen in ...

Agencies are good at talking the talk (chief diversity officers and the like are currently popping up like daffodils in Spring) but doing good is hard. AKQA, now at the centre of WPP following its “merger” with Grey, has combined ...

Heaven knows how many new subscribers Netflix is getting as we prepared for a marooned Christmas, I’ve spoken to two people preparing to take the plunge. So good of AKQA’s Ajaz Ahmed to send this over, a kind of Netflix ...