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WPP media agency Wavemaker has lured Verizon head of strategy Monica Majumdar (below) to be its UK head of strategy. Her responsibilities include new business. At Wavemaker she will report to CSO Verra Budimlija. Before two years at Verizon she ...

Chinese-owned car brand Volvo (strange but true) is back with another global safety campaign but this time with an extra element – sustainability. So, in a clever campaign from Grey it’s added in a collapsing iceberg as the biggest (global) ...

Took a while to get round to this one (rather wish we hadn’t.) It’s an excitable number from online retail Very via Grey UK, combining a music video of Our House, featuring Suggs from Madness (OK), Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who’s been ...

Some of the troops at WPP are seemingly revolting over new entity AKQA Group (which has absorbed venerable 100-year plus agency Grey) and, more worrying for CEO Mark Read perhaps, biggest client of the merged agency Procter & Gamble is ...

So is WPP’s decision to merge Grey, one of its big creative agencies bought for $1.52bn back in 2004, a big deal? Or, as Ad Age put it in one of its inimitable headlines, just a case of: “WPP retires ...

There goes another one. WPP was built on the back of four big agency acquisitions: JWT, Ogilvy, Y&R and Grey. Now Ogilvy is the only one left standing alone as Grey, which has had a torrid time recently, especially in ...

Engine Group is upping its bid in the business transformation game by launching Growth Studio with former Grey chief growth officer Rob Sellers (below). Sellers with work with engine chief experience officer Rob Chalmers. The agency says the new studio ...

WPP’s Grey has won a role as Carlsberg’s “global advertising partner” although the Danish brewer says it will continue to work with local agencies too – good news for the UK’s Fold7 presumably, among others. Grey has handled Carlsberg’s Tuborg ...

Retailer Very has moved to Grey and the agency has a produced a new “creative platform” – ‘Life is this Very moment’ – to try to resonate with UK consumers, who are feeling somewhat down at the moment. A new ...