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Bookseller Barnes & Noble has a new ad agency, Havas North America, and the retailer is going into battle against Amazon again, showing how its staff can find you the right book. A blindingly obvious offer from a proper bookseller ...

Sometimes the job of advertising isn’t to make a big splash in social media or pick up buckets of awards. It’s to bring useful information to people in a sensible and amiable way. Which this campaign from Havas London for ...

Once it was the future. Now, apparently, crowdsourcing has had its day. Havas has shut down its Colorado-based crowdsourcing agency Victors & Spoils, which it bought in 2012 under the leadership of then-CEO, David Jones. At the time of the ...

The Beer Alliance – a lobby group of interested parties including the big brewers – is trying to summon up support for a petition supporting a cut (or no further increases) in UK beer duty. On strong lager this currently ...

Blockchain is a buzzword that seems to pique the interest of even those who don’t know what the hype is all about. When most people hear about the blockchain, initial coin offerings (ICOs), and digital currency, they often think of ...

If you find yourself in a Havas office – or any part of Vincent Bolloré’s far flung empire which includes Vivendi as well as African logistics giant Bolloré Group – don’t mention the words Bell Pottinger. Bell Pottinger was the ...

What with WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell disappearing (we think) after a lawyerised inquiry and Havas owner Vincent Bolloré helping the French police with their inquiries into some murky African doings in 2010, 2018 is becoming almost surreal. Who’s next to ...

The son also rises, they do in French business anyway. Vivendi chairman and leading shareholder Vincent Bolloré has announced that son Yannick (both below) will take from him as the big boss sometime over the next year, subject to the ...

Believe it or not, it’s spring in the UK although you wouldn’t know it as you peer through the chilly gloom. RB agency Havas London is reminding us though in this ingenious small number (ads so seem to be getting ...