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Aussie John Mescall (left) has received his reward for two stellar years at Cannes (‘Dumb Ways To Die’ and this year the Creative Effectiveness Grand Prix for V/Line) by being promoted from ECD of McCann Australia to ECD of the ...

Self-congratulation has always been something the advertising industry does exceptionally well. Whether it’s pinning a company’s turnaround on your Super Bowl spot or breathlessly touting your turn on the agency-of-the-year lists, our arms are often sore from patting ourselves on ...

I know we’ve done a lot on Three’s ‘Sing It Kitty’ ad and it’s not, as some wags have suggested, that we’re receiving backhanders from agency Wieden+Kennedy (with stern Caledonian Neil Christie in charge? Pull the other one Jimmy). But ...

The Gunn Report, which tots up the winners in the worldwide ad awards industry, has produced its summary for 2013 and here are some of the highlights. The big winner in most-awarded commercials is McCann Melbourne’s ‘Dumb Ways To Die’ ...

Wayne Deakin is ECD of Engine Group and also the UK marcom company’s digital agency Jam. An Australian, Deakin began his career at BCM Partnership and then worked at Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, McCann, Euro RSCG and Jung von ...

At Flock Associates we are never ones to miss an opportunity to dig out examples of great integrated marketing, so we figured we would jump on the ‘end of the year ‘ bandwagon and gather our favourite campaigns from 2013. ...

Adweek in the US is 35 it seems, so it’s produced a video of outstanding/interesting ads from each of those years. They’re mostly American, obviously (these are the ex-colonials who think there’s a ‘World Series’ of baseball. But W+K London ...

Elspeth Lynn is group ECD of M&C Saatchi. Prior to moving to the UK from Canada in 2009 she c0-founded Canadian agency Zig (sold to MDC Partners in 2006) which had grown to 130 people with an outpost in Chicago. ...

It’s the end of the summer (booh!) and therefore back to work. So a new business year awaits when the battle between Sir Martin Sorrell’s ‘math men,’ the number crunchers he thinks will take over the world, and people trying ...