Leo Burnett is finalising plans to merge its UK media operation, Starcom, with Bartle Bogle Hegarty s Motive, 18 months after the original merger talks between the two media shops collapsed.
Carol Reay, Grey s former deputy chairman, is stepping aside from the agency scene to spearhead the multi-million pound fundraising operation for Great Ormond Street Children s Hospital.
Labour is expected to put its advertising account up for pitch after BMP DDB told the party it does not want to handle the account for the next general election campaign.
Unicef, the United Nations Children s Fund, is in talks with major advertising networks about a dollars 1 billion initiative to put children s issues at the top of the international agenda.
Patrick Collister, executive creative director and vice-chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, has quit the agency.
Michael Bungey tried hard not to bat an eyelid when I asked him in Bates s swanky Manhattan towers if Graham Hinton was getting the chop this week. Perhaps it was his miserable cold or the appalling portrait of Ted Bates giving us the evil eye, but he wasn t quite as Teflon as usual in his response....
Government ministers are distancing themselves from recommendations for a pounds 24 top-up fee for digital subscribers in order to finance the BBC s digital channels, and looking at allowing the BBC to run advertising as an alternative method of new funding.
The Evening Standard and Metro, its free daily stablemate, have appointed Bates UK to handle creative work on their accounts as part of efforts to boost readership and make the titles more attractive to advertisers.
The Telegraph Group has set up a a separate company to take care of its online activities and appointed its marketing director, Hugo Drayton, managing director of the new company.
The D Arcy Group s reading and literacy campaign for the Department for Education and Employment and the COI took the Grand Prix at the Account Planning Group s Creative Planning Awards on Wednesday.
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