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At the Olympics there’s a team of ten refugees competing under the International Olympics Committee’s banner, trying to demonstrate – what exactly? That the IOC has a heart/conscience? That the Games isn’t all about rampant nationalism and doping? Regarding the ...

Apple isn’t as popular as it used to be. It’s grown too big, makes too much money, avoids too much tax and drives users nuts with constant upgrades that don’t work as well as they should. It also doesn’t have ...

So much of BETC Paris’ output seems effortlessly brilliant, although I’m sure a lot of blood, sweat and tears goes into it. But the agency almost can’t help being stylish. Here’s another stylish effort, ‘Support With Style’ strangely enough, for ...

Well here’s a turn-up; Gillette has dropped agency-of-the-moment Wieden+Kennedy from the shortlist for its $300m account, leaving Grey and Saatchi & Saatchi to compete against incumbent BBDO (Publicis has also been dumped). Gillette is owned by Procter & Gamble and ...

Those brands are everywhere these days. McDonald’s in the UK has put its enemies among the chattering classes on the spot by announcing a national books giveaway, handing out a collection of tomes to kids with A Happy Readers promotion ...

Actually it’s a heavyweight against a cruiserweight when you consider the size of the respective networks, vast for BBDO much smaller for W+K. But increasingly these two seem to be the agencies at the top of client minds when they ...

In February 2011 I mocked the likelihood of tennis player Andy Murray ever becoming the serial slam winner his supporters hoped for and questioned if he was worth the £10m or so his advisers were trying to raise in sponsorship ...

The extraordinary London Olympics and Paralympics have finally drawn to a close and, if anything, the Paralympics have outdone their big brother. Never more so than in last night’s closing ceremony that featured, among others, Rihanna (giving her insurers heart ...

Research giant Nielsen has pronounced that BT’s ‘Hola’ ad from AMV/BBDO featuring a bevy of Spanish lovelies using its services to connect with their boyfriends was the ‘most memorable’ UK Olympic ad. Yet it has absolutely fuck all to do ...