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More diverting doings in London’s adland: AMV BBDO group chairman Justin Pahl (left) is off to be CEO of WPP’s VMLY&R London (which doesn’t look like the most obvious thing to do) leaving Sarah Douglas in charge as AMV CEO ...

Is this Virgin Media’s swan song with BBH and Usain Bolt? The creative account’s off to adam&eveDDB. BBH and Bolt are going out with a bang with a new ad debuting ‘Intelligent WiFI’ (it fixes itself it seems) which has ...

Agencies will tell you that retaining a big account in a pitch is a bigger achievement – and more satisfying – than landing a newbie. BBH is feeling pretty pleased with itself after retaining the £30m or so Barclays account ...

A busy time for new creative hires in London’s adland, which may indicate that some agencies at least are waking up to the need to refresh the ranks and stem the tide of senior creatives moving out to pastures tech. ...

Some advertisers never seem to get it quite right – including those in the broadband/mobile market: EE and Vodafone to name but two. Another is Virgin Media, now owned by Liberty Global in the US, best known for its cable ...

Barclays is reviewing its £60m creative account after 17 years at BBH. The bank, currently under siege from a dissatisfied investor and with a trial of its former CEO John Varley and others underway, moved its Barclaycard business into Droga5 ...

Virgin Media is bringing in the new year with a new ‘Super Bolt’ campaign from BBH, plugging its supposedly faster connection speeds with the eponymous athlete. The campaign breaks on January 1. This is a bit more like it than ...

Drinks giant Diageo is reviewing its flagship Johnnie Walker account, currently shared between MDC Partners’ Anomaly and 72andSunny. It has already moved some digital business from R/GA to AnalogFolk, a big win for the independent digital and social network. Before ...

I see that Melanie Sykes has returned to the Boddingtons fold, some 20 years or so after appearing in a BBH classic ad. Here she is on the “Tour de Formby.” And in the desert for BBH supplying the “cream ...