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There’s lots of debate about how creative businesses get paid for their work. Those of us who have been around for a while will know this isn’t a new debate. A quick history lesson is helpful. Throughout most of the ...

Fallon breakaway 101 has won Tango, one of the UK’s signature ad accounts. 101, whose line-up includes Phil Rumbol, the Cadbury marketer behind Fallon’s famous ‘Gorilla’ ad, beat Adam&Eve/DDB, Creature and VCCP to the Brivic-owned soft drink brand. The account ...

As battles go this is going back a long way but, time was, when BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty) was being challenged by upstart Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury for the ‘hottest agency in London’ tag. But HHCL crashed and burned (shortly ...

Talking to people in the advertising world, there seems to be a feeling that start-ups face a far greater uphill struggle now than in the past. There is a conspiracy of factors that make the jump to independence a bigger ...

Rupert Howell (left), a founder of the HHCL agency, boss of McCann in London and former client sales supremo at ITV, is set to be the CEO of the People tabloid newspaper if Journalist Sue Douglas’s consortium succeeds in raising ...

Hyperactive WPP Sir Martin Sorrell (left) is at it again, it being his cunning plan to lure all the world’s biggest advertisers into bespoke WPP agencies set up just to service them. What CMO could resist it? The latest global ...

This is the second extract adapted from Paul Simons’ book Day 1 to Day 2555 (or 7 years in the life of an advertising agency). Here Paul explains how he went about choosing the right team to start successful London ...

I was sitting in a meeting the other day with an advertising agency in London and one of the agency team said they had a really good ‘insight’. After further discussion it seemed to me it was more of an ...

Taiwan-based mobile handset giant HTC is reported by Campaign to be holding a pitch for the launch of another new phone despite only appointing McCann London to handle its £35m account in February this year. The company is currently running ...