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We wondered when Mrs Claus, the heroine of Y&R London’s appealing sign-off ad for M&S a couple of years ago, would make a comeback and here she is rewarding Santa for his fitness drive with a new Audi RS5. It’s ...

WPP’s share price carried on inching forward this morning, showing that investors are willing to give CEO Mark Read the benefit of the doubt in the wake of various cost cuts and organisational changes announced yesterday. Read (below) disappointed a ...

If Mark Read was hoping to bury WPP’s bad news – 3500 redundancies – by announcing it on the day of the Brexit vote, he was disappointed. Theresa May might have ducked out of her big challenge on December 11th, ...

WPP CEO Mark Read will meet shareholders later today but he’s prepared the ground with a statement promising “radical evolution,” a (slightly) trimmed down WPP that will cost £300m over the next three years but aim to deliver annual savings ...

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 ...

It’s arguably the biggest week of the year for the ad business (and many others of course) with a crucial Parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s Brexit plan due tomorrow (Tuesday) although it’s this column’s view that the Government may yet ...

I have to admit I was quite sniffy when I saw this was a Christmas ad for Uber Eats and Coca-Cola. Christmas isn’t the healthiest of times, but usually there’s plenty of home cooked food and some tangerines to offset ...

It’s been a good year for Lucky Generals with loads of work from Amazon and now the majority Omnicom owned agency has won Co-op Group. Co-op’s last major creative agency was Leo Burnett. Lucky Generals will handle Co-op’s food, funerals, ...

It’s probably not the easiest time to become president of the IPA, with agency brands dying off and agency leaders clearing off in the wake of #MeToo, but Nigel Vaz has stepped up to take on the role in March. ...