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Can guidelines stop local offices from embarrassing their parent companies, John Tylee wonders.
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Let's be more relevant and responsible, the new chairman of the Advertising Association, Cilla Snowball, urges.
The Advocates - Parslow planning to electrify the UK car market
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Sands and Standard eye glory in Olympics year
London is in celebratory mood, but can Sarah Sands keep the good times rolling at the Standard? Alasdair Reid reports.
The man who would be king
Jean-Yves Naouri may divide opinion but the ex-paratrooper is well-equipped to see off the opposition and succeed Maurice Levy as the next chief executive of Publicis Groupe. John Tylee reports.
Will Facebook eclipse advertising's big league?
With its long-anticipated initial public offering launching this week, Facebook is about to be propelled into the financial stratosphere. But how does Mark Zuckerberg's company measure up when compared with the agency holding companies?
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The history of advertising in quite a few objects: 31 The Smash Martians The Smash Martians' place in British advertising history is assured.
The history of advertising in quite a few objects 30 - First episode of Mad Men Film-makers in the US have never shown much affection for the ad industry. Down the years, adfolk have usually been depicted as manipulative cynics who make people buy things they don't need.
The history of advertising in quite a few objects 29. Stanley Pollitt and Stephen King
The history of advertising 27: Roland Rat Roland, famously described as the first rat to join a sinking ship - the ill-fated TV-am - rather than fleeing it, may never lose his reputation as the godfather of dumbed-down television.
The history of advertising 26 - The Pregnant Man pub Saatchi & Saatchi old-timers will doubtless be crying in their beer the day the demolition men move in on the agency's Charlotte Street home.
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Welcome to the first incarnation of a new element in Campaign in which we invite experts to burrow beneath the surface of the catch-all that is "digital". Google, Isobar Mobile, JWT London, LBI and MBA share their insights on mobile.
