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Gaming has kind of snook up on the non-gaming world (a reducing space it seems) and now group-chatting platform Discord is making its bid to create a wider general-use community. Does the world need another one? Of course, don’t be ...

Now’s the time when we should take to the beaches, assuming you can get there and unseasonal floods haven’t washed it away. But it’s one of those years… Round about the time that a London Underground poster was causing a ...

Apple, Google owner Alphabet and Microsoft raked in combined profits of neqrly $5bn a week during the second quarter of 2021, with Facebook and Amazon due to report later this week. “Digital advertising is just on fire” said one fund ...

There’s a more positive air about M&C Saatchi as Moray MacLennan’s new regime tries to put its accounting problems behind it. But the agency has still lost a lot of ground: in the UK it was once comfortably bigger than ...

Mark Penn’s deal to merge ad holding company MDC into his tech-based Stagwell Group has finally gone through after Stagwell sweetened its offer following objections by some shareholders. MDC has resolutely failed to make money despite owning some strong agency ...

In a surprise move incumbent GroupM has pulled out of the $1bn Facebook global media pitch, currently being advised by ID Comms. The Wall Street Journal cites Facebook’s “strict contractual terms” as the reason. Dentsu International, Havas and Publicis Media ...

BBH founder Sir John Hegarty is no fan of much contemporary advertising, seeing it as primarily click chasing at the expense of the brand. His The Garage Soho is an incubator that backs brands – including Simba mattresses and other ...

Former JWT creative director Chas Bayfield and his colleague Dave Jenner who have successfully taken JWT to an employment tribunal for sex discrimination deserve a medal. As it happens, Jenner is thought to have left the industry while Bayfield is ...

Garrett O’Reilly is MD of Omnicom media agency Hearts & Science UK. Founded in 2016, Hearts & Science clients including GoCompare, Audible, Ocado, Sanofi, Center Parcs, Yakult, Ramsbury Single Estate, Thames Water, Freeview and SEGA. Desert Island Ads Sustainability in ...