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So, what was all that about? HSBC’s group marketing director Chris Clark (left) calls a review of the “£400m” (actually rather less these days) global account late last year. Well, not exactly a review. More a series of private meetings ...

WPP more or less matched rivals Publicis Groupe and Havas, beat Interpublic but lagged Omnicom with growth of 2.9 per cent in 2012, according to its full year accounts released today. Billings fell slightly to around £44bn (blamed on the ...

WPP announces its 2012 results on Friday and the odds are that they’re going to be good – if the recent hike in its share price is anything to go by. WPP, because of its scale and the number of ...

There’s a lot going on under the radar in OOH – or posters, as we anciently called it. And I’m not simply talking of Omnicom’s Eric Newnham-fronted effort to crash the charmed circle of UK specialist buyers – namely WPP-owned ...

It’s always a nervous time for agencies when a big client changes hands and they don’t come much bigger than Heinz with its iconic brands, $12bn of global sales and $370m ad budget. The key to what happens next at ...

Will Dentsu’s £3.2bn takeover of Aegis ever actually happen? Dentsu has been telling us for months that it’s only a matter of time – time needed to win regulatory approval in China, where Dentsu is desperate to expand and sees ...

Here’s the first taster of Chevrolet’s eagerly-awaited ‘Find New Roads’ campaign – taking over from the unloved ‘Chevy Runs Deep’ and a right old mish-mash it is. This was perhaps inevitable as Chevrolet, by far General Motors’ biggest brand, chose ...

Which will put the cat among the pigeons in all sorts of places, not least Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP which used to employ Eric Newnham (left), boss of new out of home contender Talon, as CEO of Kinetic. Talon, which ...

We predicted that former Kinetic boss Eric Newnham (left) would set up a real third force in UK (and maybe worldwide) out of home media planning and buying when he bought a majority stake in UK minnow Talon – and ...