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Pitch Update: Purplebricks, Tui, Cheerios, Essity, Plusnet, Honda, Ubisoft, Vodafone and more
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The best Christmas ad of 2023: You decide

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Channel 4 "Mog's Christmas" by 4Creative

The Work

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Apple "The lost voice" (in-house)

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PlayStation "Feel a new real" by Adam & Eve/DDB

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Burger King "Driving (thru the) home (of the Whopper) for Christmas" by Bartle Bogle Hegarty

Editors' Picks

Mark Read: We haven’t been slow to simplify WPP, we’re dealing with Sorrell’s ‘30 years of inactivity’

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Publicis makes in-office attendance mandatory on Mondays and eliminates consecutive remote work days

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Yannick Bolloré: Why Havas was happy to pitch for Shell and the rise of ‘super-creativity’

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After five years of evolution, does WPP need to be more radical?

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Revealed: median agency bonus payments

WPP merges VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson

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Agency bosses’ pay revealed in annual Campaign Salary Survey

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Top investor David Herro on WPP vs Publicis and why he's keeping faith in agencies

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Harassment in adland: agencies hesitate in stamping out gagging clauses

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Starter and median salaries at agencies revealed

Projects & awards

Campaign Big Awards 2023: winners revealed

Campaign Ad Net Zero Awards 2023: winners revealed

Media Week Awards 2023: winners revealed

Faces to Watch 2023: the next-gen talent line-up

Campaign Big Awards 2023: full shortlists revealed

Campaign UK 40 Over 40 2023: winners revealed

Purpose Awards 2023: winners revealed

Media Week 30 Under 30 2023: winners revealed

UK shops among Campaign's Global Agency of the Year winners

Campaign Media Awards 2023: winners revealed

Campaign Experience Awards 2023: winners revealed

Revealed: Campaign Best Places to Work 2023

Campaign Female Frontier Awards 2023: winners revealed

Campaign UK Agency of the Year Awards 2022: winners revealed

ITV and MediaCom among winners at first Campaign Brand Leadership and Partnership Awards

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‘Sparring partners’: how ad agencies are evolving as brand consultants

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Performance ‘not up to standard’ for some global agency groups as Q3 revenues drop

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