3+ hour, 4+ min ago  (327+ words) More About Advertising Joe Sedelmaier, died last week, and if you don't know who that is then you deserve to spend the rest of your life doing AI generated shitty commercials for Beauty Bum Hemorrhoid Cream. Joe was the guy…...

3+ hour, 29+ min ago  (274+ words) Publicis Group is buying Live Ramp, which it calls a global data collaboration platform, for $2. 2 billion ($2. 5bn including cash.) This is Publicis" third big non-advertising acquisition after Sapient and Epsilon, moving the French holding company further away from its ad roots…...

3+ day, 38+ min ago  (25+ words) Contagious has unveiled its 2026 Pioneers list which shines a light on the agencies setting creative standards. As Contagious is part of the Cannes Li...

3+ day, 3+ min ago  (30+ words) Why pay thousands to watch a country's team play football when you can spend the money on a trip to see the country itself? Even President Trump has s...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (162+ words) More About Advertising But we can't make ads like we used to. Clients won't buy them: too risky, the media agency doesn't understand them and Mark Zuckerberg says try him instead. How often have we heard this or something like…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (505+ words) More About Advertising Medieval carnivals were essentially licensed periods of rule-breaking. The normal social order got turned upside down, hierarchies dissolved, and things that couldnt be said or done the rest of the year were suddenly not only permitted but…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1242+ words) What happened to the once mighty ad agencies of Madison Avenue and Soho, whose great creative and strategic minds used to make or break businesses? Whatever your view of agencies in 2026, there is likely a common reflex when reading stories…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (177+ words) We're currently exploring likely winners at the various awards shows (and not just Cannes.) Here's a promising (if left-field) entry, the winner of the ADC 105th Annual Awards in NYC, from Heimat TBWA\ Berlin, working with Tempomedia Berlin, on 'No Project…...

5+ day, 14+ min ago  (106+ words) More About Advertising Lola seems to go its own (very) sweet way whoever owns it: now it's Omnicom following its takeover of IPG and former Lola owner Mullen Lowe. Once upon a time Lowe (originally Lowe Howard-Spink) was a great…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (261+ words) More About Advertising I wouldn't say it's been a stellar year for Cannes-worthy work. Usually by this time of the year, there would be a bunch of guaranteed winners that everyone agreed on. But this season seems a little thin....