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Well we’re almost there – here are my choices of the above plus Giles Keeble, who has invented his own categories. Final result next week when some stragglers have straggled in (maybe).   Agency of the year Really tricky because ...

This ad by Ogilvy UK first appeared in February but it’s being given another barrage of airtime; presumably for Christmas and all the lager special offers in the big supermarkets. It’s a delightfully old-fashioned offering; featuring a celeb (Eric Cantona) ...

JWY, part of the WPP empire, has chosen McCann Worldgroup’s Gustavo Martinez as the eventual successor to global chairman and CEO Bob Jeffrey. Martinez, 50 (left with Jeffrey) is currently boss of McCann in Europe and Asia but before that ...

Yesterday we had Canal Plus and BETC, progenitors of the big award winner ‘The Bear,’ returning to the lists and they’ve been joined by those other big winners of two years ago, Chipotle and CAA Marketing. There isn’t a lot ...

Is M&S heading towards the brand iceberg? The Titanic link is a mental vision for me of trouble ahead and I’m wondering if the folk on the bridge are looking the right way. They claimed the Titanic could never sink ...

Over the last week there has been a frenzy of speculation about the proposed merger between Omnicom and Publicis. It probably goes without saying – but I will – that both Mr. Wren and M. Levy will have discussed in ...

A few years ago WPP-owned Ogilvy sprung a big surprise by hiring M&C Saatchi creative director Graham Fink, a veteran of the London agency scene (although he manages not to look like one), and transplanting him to China. Have they ...

In which our hero continues his odyssey among the once-mighty tech companies of Silicon Valley and Houston. Unlike the New York, Mad Man sixties, when agency perks included smoking, drinking and screwing your brains out, during the California seventies, at ...

Here we go again: WPP’s MEC media agency repitched for Chanel recently and the result is…yet another new WPP agency, Plus, designed to handle creative and digital well as media (which will be shared between Plus media folk from Mindshare ...