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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 ...

Some of the troops at WPP are seemingly revolting over new entity AKQA Group (which has absorbed venerable 100-year plus agency Grey) and, more worrying for CEO Mark Read perhaps, biggest client of the merged agency Procter & Gamble is ...

Much speculation about the possible fate of AKQA, Ajaz Ahmed’s “ideas and innovation” company he founded 21 years ago. Sold to WPP long ago, he and it are still there. But it’s been linked to so far un-merged WPP agencies ...

If it was a good idea then it probably is now and Nike has revived its famous Eric Cantona poster from 1996 for the Euro Championships in England (the one where Gareth Southgate missed that penalty against Germany) to celebrate ...

Australia’s biggest digital agency DT is being rebadged as AKQA, giving WPP’s flagship digital agency AKQA a big presence in Australia and New Zealand for the first time. DT was owned by holding company STW which was bought by WPP ...

French luxury goods house Hermès, best known for catering to women as in its iconic ‘Grace Kelly’ bag, is running a Hermès MANifeste campaign with digital agency AKQA, aimed at blokes. Hermès began as a saddlery in the 19th century. ...

AKQA has created a pop-up e-store for Hermès silk. The store at

It’s strange to see the mighty Apple on the back foot but that seems to be the case in its titanic marketing battle with Samsung. Now Ad Age reports that the tech company is to hire four new digital agencies: ...