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Virgin Media 02’s new director of brand and marketing Simon Groves faces one of adland’s trickier issues as the takes the marketing helm of the newly-merged mobile and (in the case of the Virgin bit) TV provider – one agency ...

Something is stirring at Havas in London, to general surprise it’s up against French rival Publicis for the substantial, if tricky, Asda account – recently departed from AMV BBDO. It’s also grouped some of Havas Media Group’s offerings into Havas ...

Mobile network wars are raging in the UK: BT has moved to Publicis-owned Satchi & Saatchi from AMV BBDO and is bombarding us with stories about it being the best network and able to provide broadband everywhere. Now 02 has ...

Nigel Bogle of BBH fame famously observed that no agency was more than three phone calls from disaster (these days it’s probably emails) and, as if they didn’t have enough on their plates, VCCP and adam&eveDDB, two of the UK’s ...

It’s nerve-racking enough to be a player, coach or organising body involved in a big sports tournament, such as the current Rugby World Cup. But it’s arguably worse if you’re a brand owner who has invested millions in such an ...

Here’s one of the big ads of the the year, O2’s ‘Make them giants’ for its #WearTheRose campaign from VCCP, supporting the England rugby team in the Rugby World Cup. Months in the making no doubt, with ‘Bear and Hare’ ...

UK phone operator Three’s ‘same price phone calls from abroad’ offer is a good one and agency Wieden+Kennedy has flogged it to the masses with a certain brio. Now it’s adding Spain, still the biggest overseas holiday destination for the ...

French tycoon Vincent Bollore, newly installed as chairman of huge media conglomerate Vivendi (it owns Canal+ among others) seems to have rediscovered an interest in advertising too. Hot on the heels of announcing he plans to tender for more shares ...

From one wrinkly old man to a bunch of others – no, I’m not talking about the IPA Council. Here’s Mick Jagger, with a semi-comatose Charlie Watts, plugging the Monty Python reunion, currently at the O2 in London. Very good, ...