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John Lewis agency Adam & Eve, bought for £60m by Omnicom yesterday, seems to have executed a reverse takeover of flagging DDB London as the Adam & Eve-ites have emerged firmly on top in the merged agency’s management. The three ...

It’s all rather depressing really, a new agency comes on the scene, scores highly (in this case with one account) and then sells out at the top of what might be a very short market. But that’s what seems to ...

Virgin Media’s new TV campaign by newly-appointed agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty features the actor David Tennant, best-known for his stint as the BBC’s ever popular Dr Who. The ad features a Dr Who-style Tardis time machine (enclosing Virgin owner Richard ...

It’s quite clear that the first thing you do when you’re pitching for a Virgin anything account is suggest to a relieved client that all your investigations show that Richard Branson should appear in it somewhere. You then have the ...

Amongst other things, obviously it was. The fifth series of Mad Men starts Sunday in the US, and probably on Sky Atlantic in the UK. I wouldn’t know because I’m a Virgin customer in the UK and don’t have Sky ...

A lot of people would tell you that it matters not a jot who is the biggest agency in any country, ranked by media billings. Creative agencies don’t spend the media money and, in the YouTube age, fees don’t necessarily ...

Well it might do. DDB has always been good at providing a human dimension to the products it promotes, the agency understands that there’s no point in trying to sell something unless people like it. And DDB London has had ...

It’s the time of the year when hacks and others start musing about agency of the year gongs and, in the UK at least, it seems pretty obvious that the winner is going to be Bartle Bogle Hegarty. It has ...

In its former guise as Boase Massimi Pollitt DDB London was one of the inventors of account planning (as it then was) and now the agency is trying to make the whole business more scientific by hiring Dr Shorful Islam ...