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WPP recently announced that Kantar Health, its wholly-owned global healthcare consulting firm, has acquired Evidências, a healthcare research company based in Brazil. Evidências is an industry leader in “Evidence-based, health...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
TBWA, the Omnicom owned global advertising agency, has been named the global agency of record for Airbnb, the San Francisco-based hospitality website, which effectively acts as a social networking site for lodgers and landlords looking for short-term...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Publicis Groupe has been tipped to acquire Criteo, the online advertising company based in Paris, France. According to recent reports, the acquisition would help the Publicis Groupe expand its digital capabilities, as Criteo specialise in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Reports have been leaking in over the weekend that Liberty Global, the owners of Virgin Media, are looking at placing a takeover bid for ITV. The telecommunications and television company owned by billionaire John Malone has reportedly been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As part of the PR surrounding the launch of Uncle Ben's new “Ben's Beginners” campaign, which is encouraging kids to get involved in the kitchen, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has launched a new two-minute online film called “Where's the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The news that the next 'Star Wars' film will be a sequel to episode six - 'Return Of The Jedi' - fills me with genuine excitement. That it will star Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Peter Mayhew is thrill upon thrill. However, if this...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Barangaroo, the redevelopment project on the western edge of Sydney's central business district, has appointed 15 agencies to cover categories of creative engagement, design services, digital media services, public relations services, writing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Rosetta, the Publicis Groupe's customer engagement agency, announced yesterday that it had promoted five associate partners to partner, elevating the total number of partners at the agency to 47, with 14 managing partners. Tom Adamski, who took over...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ashton Kutcher - you know the fellow. He's famous, isn't he? Famous for some quite poor movies; famous for marrying Demi Moore; famous for that Hollywood hidden camera thing - Punk'd; and famous for launching websites. Hang on - famous for launching...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The American Honda Motor Company announced yesterday that it would be consolidating the lion's share of the digital marketing for both its primary Honda brand and its Acura luxury brand into a new team drawn from Razorfish and other members of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Microsoft recently announced a new low cost mobile phone a month after a leaked memo revealed that the technology giants were considering culling their more affordable phones in favour of their more expensive, “Windows Phones”. The Nokia...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
John Hurt, Sir Neville Marriner and I walked into a bar... No, that isn't the opening of a joke; it actually happened on Saturday. (Yes, it really did.) Luckily, there was no rerun of any alien-bursting-out-of-the-stomach scene. Always a bonus. So,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
I think I've only ever met two people who never swore. One for moral and religious reasons, the other had taught herself not to, because she thought she was doing it too much. I admired them both for their self-control and adhering to something they...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The Atlanta-based Creaxion, one of North America's leading marketing firms, announced recently that it had signed up SegPay for five more years; the longest, and perhaps most significant client contract in the agency's 16 year history. SegPay is one...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Eventbrite and 99designs have joined forces, announcing an integration that will seamlessly connect graphic designers with event organisers, in order to provide them with access to professional, unique banner designs for their event pages. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The CEO of Tesco, Philip Clarke, is now the ex-CEO of Tesco. He left the job last week, having failed to turn the retailer's fortunes around. Indeed, some would argue that he was actually the catalyst for the decline in the store's success. These...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
I'm going to let you into a secret. Not a massive one, like I know that Pop Idol was fixed back in 2002 and Gareth Gates should have beaten Will Young into second place. No, I'm talking about something really, really insignificant. My minimum word...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Christopher Graves, the CEO of Ogilvy PR Global, has bagged the WPP Atticus Award for Public Relations and Public Affairs, his third Atticus Award, including the Atticus Grand Prix he won in 2012 for original published thinking in branding and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
O.R Radhakrishnan has beed scooped by Enormous Brands, the Mumbai, India-based agency, which provides complete marketing and brand solutions to brands. Radhakrishnan joins EB as executive creative director from McCann Mumbai, where he served as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ogilvy Public Relations announced yesterday that Jennifer Banovetz has been appointed as senior vice president and brand marketing group director of the integrated global communications firm, which is based in Los Angeles. Effective from the 4th of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
That which was designed to save us, is spoiling our lives. Which is a fancy way of saying that passwords have become a terrible pain in the elbow. About fifteen years ago, when most of us began our connection to the sprawling internet beast, we only...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Leo Burnett announced earlier this week that Y&R Canada has welcomed Alum Bayley into its ranks as senior vice president and global client leader for its BMO (Bank of Montreal) North American business. Bayley will be working from the agency's Toronto...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the 61st Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity draws to a close, Ogilvy & Mather head home with top honours, having been named 'Network of the Year' for the third consecutive year. This is the cherry on top of an incredibly successful week of Ogilvy...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
By way of distraction from the work I was supposed to be doing today, I clicked on a link to a piece of writing on a reputable music website. About a paragraph into the article an unexpected thing happened. The webpage was suddenly obscured by a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Last week, I wrote a blog post entitled, Why on earth do I need a copywriter? I speak English and own a computer. As I'd hoped, the blog caught the attention of a lot of you - but not just copywriters, as it turned out. From designers to marketing...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Since an art director colleague introduced me to Banksy many years ago, I’ve enjoyed his stuff enormously. In that time he has painted throughout the world, from Sydney to Camden, LA to Palestine. The art critics bemoan him - too obvious, too...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
I'm busy. Very busy. And that's a good thing in the world of any freelancer. If there's one part of the “job” I find arduous, it's the touting for work. I don't mind the networking, as long as there's a nice finger buffet and a reasonable...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
From the most intricate folding cardboard and metal cards to contact details printed on balloons, the humble business card has developed into an art form in itself. With different cards out there trying to stand out and grab your attention more so...
Posted by: Creativepool
I don't know about you but I've noticed that an increasing amount of people are chucking in their day jobs to embark on a career as a freelance copywriter. I'm not entirely sure why so many fancy their chances. I guess they believe they can write a...
Posted by: Creativepool
I am writing this blog on a train on the way back to the Big Smoke following a few days mini-break in Cornwall, Mevagissey to be exact. As usual I have found the green hues, sea air and laid-back friendly locals a tonic to my tattered nerves and eye...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
Between May the 21st and the 24th, Destination Imagination will be celebrating Global Finals 2014, the world's largest creative thinking and problem solving competition for students. This year (which promises to be the biggest yet), a record setting...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The BBC notwithstanding, and a peppering of community outfits aside, there aren’t really any independent radio stations left in the UK. It’s all ‘networks’ - which is a rather overexcited way of saying a large corporation...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Is there anything wrong with a writer reviewing a logo? After all, very few of us know our way around Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, and I've never met a writer who went to design school. If then, you do think we have no business sounding off about...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Finally, after many years of procrastination, I'm writing a novel. A lot of people apparently feel that they “have a novel in them”, but I've taken the plunge and I'm actually doing it. Yay, me. Mind you, as I say, it took me a long...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
When the dreadful story of the mysterious disappearance of Flight MH370 dawned on the world, it was notable how many people pontificated ‘Surely all those satellites and things can track a plane anywhere.’ Some hotheads even went as far...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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