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"Content is crap". Does ITV's Simon Daglish have a point?

Last week saw Sir John Heggarty proclaiming most modern advertising to be sh*t. Perhaps there's something in the bracing Spring air, because this week ITV's commercial boss Simon Daglish has warned brands that '90% of content is crap'. Some livewires...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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WPP announce a 6% rise in sales over the first two months of 2014

WPP, the largest advertising company in the world, have recently announced an increase in revenue of more than 6% in just the first two months of the year, thanks to improved business in both western Europe and the U.S. According to CEO Sir Martin...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Features

Martin, Paltrow and ‘Conscious Uncoupling’. Another easy target?

Naming their children Apple and Moses would be reason enough for a lot of people to mock Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin: a slightly bizarre melange of Hollywood new age tree hugger and artiste-who-takes-himself-a-bit-too-seriously. As if those same...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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AOL announce new Ad Platform and transform their advertising business

AOL announced at a technology conference in California on Wednesday that their advertising business was to get a major overhaul in the shape of 'One by AOL'; an ad platform which unites all ad campaigns (including video, desktop and mobile) under one...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Foster + Partners to design First and Mission Towers in San Francisco

In a joint venture, TMG Partners, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest mixed-use property developers, and Northwood Investors LLC, a leading privately-held global real estate investment firm, announced today the selection of Foster +...

Posted by: Foster + Partners
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Sir John Hegarty says modern advertising is 'sh*t'. Is he right?

“If you look at the UK, we are suffering because we are not putting the time into the idea and there’s empirical evidence to say that the quality of our output has gone down. It’s not my opinion. Empirical evidence from the audience...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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The rise and rise of the no-makeup selfie

For the past week, Facebook has been awash with no make-up selfies. You will now be looking at your colleagues, friends, bosses maybe even girlfriends, with new eyes, knowing now exactly how everyone looks first thing in the morning, albeit via the...

Posted by: Jessica Hazel
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JWT names Stefano Zunino as new Latin American CEO

JWT, arguably the world's best-known marketing communications brand, has recently appointed a new CEO for their Latin American operations and has, in the same breath, added Brazil back into the mix after keeping it separate from the rest of the...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

The Flying Spaghetti Monster and the nature of belief

In the UK, we have the odd instance of a fringe school pressing for the right to teach archaic or arcane ideas to children. This is usually the desire to include creationism, or other religious notions, in their science classes. In the USA it's a...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Features

Im a expret and a gruu. It says so on my websight.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll belong to quite a lot of LinkedIn groups that are relevant to your area of work. For me, a lot of these are copywriting-specific groups, but I also belong to others to do with subjects like SEO, social...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Leaders

TBWA “Get in the mood” and acquire a promising Brazilian agency

It was announced yesterday by TBWA Worldwide (an Omnicom Group advertising network) that they had acquired Mood, a successful young advertising agency in Brazil after taking majority shares. The agency is headed by Augusto Cruz Neto, who (as part of...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Foster + Partners exhibition to open in Bangkok

‘Foster + Partners: The Art of Architecture’ will be staged at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) from 4 April to 29 June 2014. The touring exhibition is the first survey of the practice’s work in Thailand and follows...

Posted by: Foster + Partners
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DigitasLBi announce a major promotion and a fresh hire

DigitasLBi had two major announcements to make yesterday, both coming at a time when the agency is striving to transform its clients brands for the digital age. The first came in the form of David Carr, who has been appointed as the new strategy...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

L'Wren Scott and the battle for creative identity.

This week we all heard the sad news that fashion designer L'Wren Scott was found hanged in an apparent suicide in her New York apartment on Monday. Although a successful fashion designer in her own right and professional model before this, Scott's...

Posted by: Jessica Hazel
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Leaders

Phil Dowgierd joins Tribal Worldwide Sydney as MD

DDB Group Sydney announced today that Phil Dowgierd has been appointed as managing director for Tribal Worldwide Sydney. Dowgierd moves to the DDB Group from AKQA, where he led a group of 60 individuals focusing on the global platform development,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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McCann Erickson and American Airlines recall the glory days of flying

As the competition between the major transcontinental airlines becomes more fraught than ever, American Airlines have launched a new campaign that celebrates the aviation firms illustrious history. Created by globally renowned ad agency McCann...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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DraftFCB South Africa announce new name and CI roll-out

Brett Morris, CEO of DraftFCB South Africa, announced yesterday his agency is planning to roll-out a rebranding campaign, following on from the announcements on the 10th of March that the entire global network and all of its collective agencies is to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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VCCP to tailor ads specifically for comparethemarket.com.au

The Australian branch of comparison website comparethemarket.com is set to focus on more localised content with a new campaign spearheaded by international full service creative agency VCCP. The brand will launch the latest instalment in its wildly...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

The car ad without the car: Land Rover #Hibernot

I don’t want to jinx it or anything, but hasn’t the weather been glorious over the past few days? Warm enough to potter around the garden in a t-shirt, I even slapped on some factor 10 sun cream, being the pasty ginge that I am. And...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison

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