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On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David look at the rumours (and plausible evidence) that one of the major advertising holding companies will become an acquisition target for one of the big consultant or audit firms. These whispers first became ...

An interview with Richard Glasson, CEO of Hogarth Worldwide. 1/So-called production agencies started as entities that provided the heavy lifting for creative agencies on clients such as retailers. How has this changed? Digital and content have changed everything. When we ...

Did Anomaly New York detect the brewing Harvey Weinstein scandal when it made this, ‘Shetopia,’ for Sally Hansen? It’s girls on top with a vengeance and all the better for it. Sally Hansen is one of the many beauty brands ...

Where does the Late Late Show’s James Corden get the energy? He seems to be in every ad going as well as popping over to the UK now and then to remind us that he’s still around – as if ...

IPA President Sarah Golding is conducting a crusade to make the business love those dreaded machine functions, such as AI, or at least co-exist with them more comfortably. Now her agency CHI&Partners is launching a ‘Magic & The Machines’ competition ...

Freeview, the UK’s biggest TV platform, has awarded its £15m media account to Rocket. Rocket is part of Omnicom’s five-strong line-up of media agencies in the UK. Rocket now lines up with creative agency Anomaly and digital shop NMPi. Freeview ...

Property company Hammerson, which owns some of the UK’s biggest shopping centres, is adding Style Seeker to its Plus app, allowing fashionistas the chance to snap anything that takes their fancy and find it (or something similar) in the shopping ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (below), who’s fighting on a number of fronts at the moment, likes nothing more than a good old-fashioned takeover battle and he’s in another although this time on the receiving end – Bain Capital’s $1.3bn ...

Voxi is Vodafone’s new ‘yoof’ brand, sensible enough I suppose as Vodafone seems trapped in its middle-aged, corporate image despite hundreds of millions of ad expenditure trying to tell us it’s not. So here’s Ogilvy getting down with the kids, ...