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Vauxhall is one of those anomalies of British life (elsewhere it’s Opel), one that might disappear if Boris’ Brexiters get their way. And, somehow or other, there are few things more British than men in vans (and women of course, ...

We hear a lot about Accenture Interactive, less about Deloitte Digital which runs a sizable operation encroaching on adland’s traditional turf. Now DD has hired McCann New York COO Rich Whalen as MD of its US creative and studio offering, ...

Phil Geier (Philip H. Geier Jr to give him his full title) was chairman and CEO of Interpublic from 1980 to 2000, when he turned Marion Harper’s Interpublic into the biggest ad holding group in the world. He began his ...

The global car industry’s in trouble so the biggest car manufacturers are trying all manner of wheezes to spark it into action. One of the problems is that people have finally wised up to the phenomenal depreciation of cars once ...

Bouncing balls are pretty useful things in ads (as Sony Bravia discovered all those years ago) and they’re used to good effect in a new global campaign for Mastercard from McCann. Part of Mastercard’s Start Something Priceless campaign, the new ...

The digital economy has transformed the rather mundane business of ordering a takeaway and Just Eat is trying to grab the biggest global share against Deliveroo and Uber Eats, among others. McCann London has been entrusted with the job by ...

Flagship Interpublic agency McCann seems to be motoring nicely on both sides of the Atlantic and, in London anyway, its flagship account is Microsoft Xbox. Most gaming ads are shoot-em-ups of one sort or another but confident Xbox is essaying ...

Interpublic’s McCann has run up the white flag in its long-running dispute with the US Army, first over its decision to fire McCann and then award the business (said to be worth $136m in revenue over ten years) to Omnicom’s ...

WPP has joined former incumbent Interpublic’s McCann in contesting the result of the US Army’s review of its massive ten-year $4bn ad account, claiming that the winner, Omnicom’s DDB, couldn’t (among other things) do the job for the money. The ...