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UK coalition government ad cuts have created a worrying inability to communicate
The last year and a bit has been a turbulent time for the UK government’s communicators. It was always likely to be the case, with the coalition government wielding its new broom. A haze of...
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Creative Ken Hoggins follows Waitrose into BBH – or is it the other way round?
Upmarket grocer Waitrose may be arguably Britain’s most successful retailer at the moment but it’s made a right hash of its advertising arrangements recently, first departing MCBD/Dare to follow...
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JWT banks its Jeremy Carr dividend as Premier Foods switches from Dare and 101
What a difference an in-demand creative makes. Jeremy Carr (pictured), who joined JWT as a creative director last summer from Dare, has produced the goods for his new agency with the award of Premier...
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London agency Now finally finds a forward gear with £17m BT Business win
New London agency Now calls itself an “agency for the accelerated world” but in its early days the agency seemed to go into rapid reverse. The agency was formed by former COI boss Mark Lund last year,...
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Leo Burnett snaps up £50m Co-op account
Retail’s the story of the moment for UK ad agencies with Tesco’s £110m pitch lumbering into gear, the John Lewis account powering Adam & Eve into a £60m deal with Omnicom’s DDB London and now the...
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Ad industry gangs up on Chartered Institute of Marketing over ‘misleading’...
An amusing industry spat has broken out between the Chartered Institute of Marketing and just about everyone else over the way the industry has been handling the vexed issue of marketing to children....
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Mark Lund’s new agency Now debuts with chirpy Claims Direct ad
Ambulance-chasing ads drive you up the wall if, like me, you end up watching too many digital channels of an afternoon as you escape from the computer before commencing the evening’s entertainments....
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UK government’s new ad agency ‘procurement’ system is a nightmare designed by...
The follies of the UK’s coalition government know no bounds and now this collection of muppets – who promised a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ when it came into power in 2010 – has produced a procurement...
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McCann lures Lund from Now to try to revive London
DLKW founder, and former boss of the UK government’s advertising service the COI, Mark Lund (left) is leaving the agency he helped to found after the COI to join McCann as group CEO. Lund founded...
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