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The Cannes International Festival of Creativity, which rolls (lurches?) on to La Croisette from June 18-25, has announced the runners and riders for this year in terms of prizes and jury chairs. New on the scene is a Digital Craft ...

The sighs of relief in Omnicom-owned agencies were loud when the merger with Publicis Groupe was called off (as, no doubt, they were in the PG equivalents). Not so, of course, at the two companies’ respective HQs. But it might ...

The great and good (and maybe not so good) of the technology, media and telecoms world are gathered once again in Barcelona at the annual Morgan Stanley talk-fest, with John Wren and Maurice Levy (left) of the about-to-be-merged Omnicom/Publicis Groupe ...

Oh to be a fly on the wall at the Four Seasons hotel in Miami (below) where about 100 top execs from Omnicom and Publicis Groupe will convene on October 18 to discuss how they’re going to get on together, ...

Nearly three weeks on from the seismic news that Publicis Groupe and Omnicom are to merge and still no end in sight to the discussion of possible permutations. Not, be it noted, among the clients involved – who are mostly ...

Sounds extraordinary doesn’t it but that’s what one Cannes veteran reckons one agency network spent on this year’s ad beanfeast. No idea if ‘entries’ includes board and lodging but it probably doesn’t. One entry for the film awards costs around ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell is rather keen on winning the absurd Holding Company of the Year gong at Cannes (don’t think they’ve been badgered into calling it a Grand Prix yet) and the apple of his beady eye will ...

*Honda in the US is reviewing its $800m account, which will have reverberations all over the place as it tries to find an agency that gives it the whoomph to challenge Toyota. And Ford and GM and Chrysler… RPA has ...

Actually it’s a heavyweight against a cruiserweight when you consider the size of the respective networks, vast for BBDO much smaller for W+K. But increasingly these two seem to be the agencies at the top of client minds when they ...