Much chatter about the growing dominance of media in the big ad holding companies as they finish their 2024 reporting season. In reality it’s been that way for a good few years now, as the digital ...

My year captured in one scene wasn’t on a stage or a screen. It was on that grassy slope in Manchester watching thousands of ticketless people belt out songs, without even being at the gig. Gallagher ...

A desert island feels like a good place to think about advertising. No metrics. No trend reports. No LinkedIn posts about “authentic storytelling”. Just the work itself and whether it actually sticks ...

‘Boil-in-a-bag funerals are here at last – I have a few questions’ was the heading on Carol Midgeley’s piece in Times 2 on Wednesday. Midgeley is the Thunderer’s esteemed TV critic and she, like the ...

For the last week or so we have been bombarded with news items in the ad trades and the financial press about the forthcoming merger of Omnicom and Interpublic. Most of these are merely a rehash of ...

Do creative agency billings matter? Are they still the best common source of information telling us which agencies are on the up and which aren’t? Common wisdom has it that they aren’t, with agency ...

Neverland has won Center Parcs’ brand and strategy business in a pitch handled by Ingenuity+. Center Parcs has six villages in the UK with over 2.3m visitors annually with a new one planned in ...

R/GA’s Rebecca Bezzina is moving to Accenture Song as marketing practice lead for the UK, Ireland and Africa. The move frees up her predecessor Bill Scott to focus attention back on his other job – ...