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George Parker: you have to make the bastards pay!
There’s always been a perception in the business world that advertising agencies have an unlimited license to print money. Back…
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Mick Mahoney joins RKCR/Y&R as creative boss
RKCR/Y&R in London has hired Mick Mahoney from Havas Worldwide (formerly Euro RSCG) as its new executive creative director. Mahoney…
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WPP’s Sorrell places his bets on new media – and it’s Google’s YouTube not Facebook or Twitter
The most interesting thing about WPP Group’s first quarter financial results were not the numbers, but its chief executive’s obiter…
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UK is the brightest spot in WPP results as advertising and media buying thrive, PR stutters
He’s a veritable babbling (or burbling) brook that Martin Sorrell. This morning he was on the airwaves again; promoting (or…
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The Chinese arrive in UK marcoms land as Blue Focus buys a fifth of quoted PR outfit Huntsworth
First up Huntsworth boss Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) says he wanted to buy leading Chinese PR firm Blue…
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Will 2013 go down as the most boring year in the history of advertising – ever?
Do you remember those cheesy old compilation records? “The best tracks from a boy band you’ll never hear from again…
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Levy lays out tantalising glimpse of Publicis future
What are we to make of Maurice Levy’s musings about his and Publicis Groupe’s future? Levy hosted a confab in…
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George Parker: how I met David Ogilvy – twice
When, in 1963, as a snot nosed 23 year old, I disembarked at pier 96 from the Queen Mary (the…
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Omnicom has the same Europe blues as Publicis Groupe – only rather more of them
Investors prefer companies to be boring when it comes to announcing quarterly results and the marcoms gang looks unlikely to…
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