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London agency WCRS is having its best year for decades but, it emerges, owner Engine is planning to consign it to history in another one of those mystifying agency shake-ups aimed at persuading clients they’re getting more from less. Engine, ...

WPP is in advanced talks to buy the Financial Times’s London headquarters at One Southwark Bridge for £93m, continuing the trend of giant centralised HQs in adland. It already has similar operations in Amsterdam and Toronto. At the same time ...

Ogilvy UK CSO Kevin Chesters (below) has quit, hard on the heels of agency CEO Charlie Rudd, Jo Coombs head of OgilvyOne who’s teaming up again with new Publicis Groupe UK country manager Annette King, production head Clare Donald and ...

The number of senior departures from Ogilvy UK is scarcely believable and now CCO Mick Mahoney is the latest to leave. Mahoney (below) follows in the footsteps – doubtless still sizzling Road Runner style – of fellow CCO Emma De ...

Ogilvy UK group CCO Ema de la Fosse (below) is the latest in a series of exits from Ogilvy, not just on this side of the Atlantic as it’s been losing people like topsy in the US too. Maybe its ...

Ogilvy’s work for Unilever’s Dove over the years has given the brand a kind of good works halo but leaves the question: where does it go from here? A tie-up with Cartoon Network in a new series Steven Universe, exploring ...

WPP is facing a test in the UK as it searches for CEOs to lead two of its biggest agencies, Ogilvy and Grey. Ogilvy’s Charlie Rudd – who was CEO of the ad agency, but recently had the title of ...

Michael Frohlich’s controversial restructuring of Ogilvy UK has had another predictable consequence: former Ogilvy & Mather CEO Charlie Rudd, who led a revival of the agency, has quit his post as chief client officer. Ogilvy & Mather disappeared in the ...

The current round of house cleaning in adland in the wake of #MeToo – some might call it a purge – has claimed its highest profile victim to date, Ogilvy Group CCO Tham Kai Meng who’s led creative at Ogilvy ...