Max, Dan, Jerry – 2012′s out-performers
League tables of achievement are as commonplace as turkeys right now. Why burden you with another one? Well, I’ve been asked to – by the good folk at More About Advertising. So: Ad of the Year. Yes, I...
View Article£3bn Aegis deal will test Dentsu’s mettle
Cynics might say that £3.2bn – cash – is an awful lot to pay for digital competence and a superior market rating. And they have a point. Would Dentsu ever have planned such an audacious and costly coup...
View ArticleIs Bolloré limbering up for a new tilt at Aegis?
Wouldn’t it be a shock if Vincent Bolloré, corporate raider, chairman of Havas and long-time would-be nemesis of Aegis, were finally to deliver his knock-out blow just when the media buying, digital...
View ArticleObama, BP and the day the British mouse roared
Barack Obama must have been stunned when he heard the news. This time he’d gone too far with anti-British, anti-BP rhetoric and he was going to receive the just penalty for his temerity. Yes siree, the...
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