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18 Sep 2012
| by Ben Bold
UK digital agency Essence has acquired San Francisco-based media agency Black Bag Advertising for an undisclosed sum, a move that extends its reach beyond its New York office to the US west coast.
George Entwistle, the BBC's new director-general, has today (18 September) given his inaugural speech to staff in which he said more BBC content will be distributed via the internet and revealed changes to senior management.
18 Sep 2012
| by John Owens
KPMG has poached PricewaterhouseCooper's top UK comms figure for a newly created leading global role.
ShortList Media, publisher of men's weekly magazine ShortList, has confirmed it is launching a digital men's title, and revealed it will be called Mr Hyde.
18 Sep 2012
United Colors of Benetton is following up its controversial "unhate" press ads with a global campaign.
Pepsi is unveiling an ad to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album, launching in the US tonight (18 September) during 'The X Factor'.
Closer France has been ordered to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge by a French court today, which has also blocked the further publication of the images in France.
Google has collaborated with AKQA's US office to launch a platform to showcase digital "creative excellence".
18 Sep 2012
| by Steve Hastings, planning partner, Isobel
Back in the age when I could still remember the taste of semolina - we're talking the 80's - we were young, foolhardy and had the world in front of us. All we had to do was to carry on being our brilliant selves and we would be rich and famous.