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By Michael Lee I recently posted who I thought were the best ever creative directors in advertising. One of those creative directors was Remi Babinet (below), the Chief Creative Officer of BETC in Paris. I have known Remi since the ...

French media giant Vivendi and agency group Havas may be separate companies but they have one Vincent Bollore in common. The Bollore clan own Havas and Vincent is chairman and a big shareholder in the much larger Vivendi. Paris-based BETC ...

Can you remember when British TV was awash with motor oil ads? Manly lubricants stuffed full of secret ingredients that probably made no difference at all to your spluttering Ford Cortina? They seem to have well and truly gone but ...

Back in the day I recall a certain media agency that rewarded its more valued eager beaver time buyers with a Peugeot 205 GTI. Trouble was, they kept driving them into walls and things, thereby leading to lots of damage ...

A few years ago BETC Paris created ‘The Bear’ for Canal+ and won just about every ad award going. More recently its Evian ‘Dancing Babies’ racked up over 50m hits on YouTube. Now BETC and BETC digital have taken elements ...

***Here’s a nice new ad from BMW from KBS in New York (can’t be bothered to spell it out) for its new series of electric cars. Well they look great don’t they? But why don’t the car manufacturers cough up ...

Is Havas more or less likely to be sold now that CEO David Jones has decided to step down to form his own social media company? New boss Yannick Bollore (left), son of major shareholder Vincent, has rather pointedly not ...

The Guardian newspaper, when it’s not being castigated by various spooks for revealing how they’re spying on us (Mrs Merkel indeed!) is trying to go global, which is brave in the extreme as it’s still losing buckets of money in ...

The dear old UK was ever a nation of contrasts and, while half the country is concerned about ‘heat or eat,’ the nation’s pets seem to be more pampered than ever. Andrew Cooper, the model who appears in BETC’s ‘Hunk’ ...