Stephen Foster

German-owned discounter Lidl is arguably the UK's current best-performing supermarket – so it's no surprise that it's reportedly reviewing its creative account, currently at Droga5.

We may be drowning in data these days but how much of it is any use? Let's hope the IPA's long-running Bellwether Report is more accurate than some of the stuff that makes headlines.

VCCP is in a rich vein of form at the monent, somehow finding the resources to service all the new business it keeps winning (it does employ around 1000 people, so that obviously helps.)

Trying to find out about anything is increasingly hard in today’s online world, bedevilled by the rapid integration of generative […]

Maybe it's the Sydney Sweeney effect, nothing like sex for grabbing attention in an overstuffed media marketplace.

It's not been a great year on this increasingly embattled planet and there's a nasty new word for a nasty experience: enshittification, coined by Cory Doctorow.

Coca-Cola has chosen Omnicom to handle its giant North America media account while WPP, which handled North America before the business went to Publicis, has retained media globally.

This new campaign from Neverland and WhyProjects is unlikely to detain awards juries too long but it's more than timely.

When the world is eventually destroyed by the machinations of America's unlovely Big Tech Bros and their AI obsession it's disappointing to learn they've already organised their equivalent of nuclear survival bunkers in unpopulated parts of the world – like New Zealand.

WPP CEO Cindy Rose has shown that she's pretty good at forecasting and managing decline. The UK-based holding company reporting Q3 revenue of £3.2m, like-for-like decline of 2.1% – in line with forecasts – making -2.8% for the year to date. With pass-through costs excluded Q3 revenue rose 0.5%. Q4 is expected to show a further improvement.