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2015 was a dynamic year for account reviews amongst agencies globally, with 7000 individual reviews tracked in the R3 New Business League table. R3 Principal Greg Paull (left) says: “Marketers were constantly looking for the right mix of creative, digital, ...

McCann in London has been rather quiet since Mark Lund, formerly of DLKW, Now and the COI, took over as group supremo but it’s finally landed a high profile win with the All England Lawn Tennis Club (or AELTC as ...

Mark Lund, a founder of DLKW and then Now and a former boss of the Government’s COI, has been CEO of McCann Worldgroup for 15 months now and nothing much seems to have happened. McCann Worldgroup includes a gaggle of ...

Now that England are out of the Rugby World Cup some of us will have to find someone else to support – New Zealand? Hmm. They’re absolutely brilliant at the game of course but there’s a kind of monastic intent ...

It’s the last knockings of Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men and here’s a resume of how it got from series one to series seven. Many people have debated how close this all was or wasn’t to the Madison Avenue of the ...

Former McCann Worldgroup boss Nick Brien (left) has re-emerged as CEO of Hearst Magazines’ digital marketing agency iCrossing and president of the media company’s Marketing Services division. Brien, a Brit, caused waves as McCann when he moved into the top ...

The Cannes International Festival of Creativity looks like it’s going to be barmier than ever this year. We’ve already had the ‘anti-sexist’ gong flagged and now McCann London is running a campaign encouraging agencies and clients to despatch their bozos ...

Last year US ‘activist’ investor Elliott Management bought a 6.9 per cent stake in Interpublic, making it one of its biggest investors. Elliott specialises in shaking up companies, often by forcing a sale. The trouble with this policy at Interpublic ...

Something seems to be going on Interpublic, the world’s fourth-largest marcoms group, with traders closing short positions (the expectation that the share price will fall) and betting on further rises. The shares are currently trading at just above $20 (IPG ...