On advertising and marketing: Like a lot of senior people in marketing, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO boss Cilla Snowball now has a second computer screen in her personal office at her Marylebone HQ... more
M&C Saatchi, the advertising agency for the Tory party and insurer Direct Line, gave a bullish verdict on the UK marketing industry after revenues jumped by almost a quarter in the first half of the year... more
A well-connected City Spy reader gets in touch about the UBS scandal and alleged rogue trader Kweku Adoboli. "Perhaps people are looking the wrong way for who caused UBS's losses," he says... more
On advertising and marketing: Forget Charles and Maurice Saatchi. Over the last 40-plus years that the brothers' name has dominated British advertising, arguably no one has done more to sustain the Saatchi legend than its top creative, Jeremy Sinclair... more
Here's the disinterested assessment of Goldman Sachs on the impact of UBS's $2 billion rogue trader, seeing a handy chance to swipe at a rival...... more
The advertising industry gave a good send-off to Hamish Pringle, departing director-general of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, with a party at the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster last night - complete with tubes of Pringles crisps, of course... more
M&C Saatchi, the Tories' advertising agency, is winning an increasing amount of international work helping to offset any jitters about the UK economy... more
The best advertising agencies are entrepreneurial at heart, always looking for new ideas to increase profits. And with the annual results season having just finished, several themes emerge... more
Advertising guru and former Conservative chairman Maurice Saatchi's overall pay package jumped 20% last year as a bumper crop of new business wins boosted profits, the firm's accounts show... more
From flotsam and jetsam chandeliers to vases made from leftover leather, London designers are turning upcycling into an art form, says Hannah Bort... more
Advertising & marketing: Forget Andy Murray's failure in the Australian Open final. Advertising and marketing experts were far more excited when Li Na became the first Chinese player to reach a Grand Slam final... more
Entrepreneur Luke Johnson and former Labour policy guru Matthew Taylor didn’t have the easiest of rides at the Royal Society of Arts AGM on John Adam Street this week, City Spy hears... more
Advertising and marketing: Maurice and Charles Saatchi, still two of the best known names in British advertising, are probably the closest we have got to a real-life version of TV's Mad Men... more
David Cameron gives his full backing to the Evening Standard’s £1million Dispossessed Fund and declares it has 'stirred the conscience' of the capital... more
Advertising and marketing: The stereotype about people in creative industries is that they are fickle and flighty - but businesses are built on strong relationships... more
Former Labour City minister Paul Myners uses a speech in the House of Lords to attack the previous government — of which he was a leading member — for its “flawed” economic thinking ... more
Advertising and Marketing: Did advertising and marketing fail to make an impact in the election? It is tempting to think so after such an inconclusive result... more
Advertising analysis: What are the biggest challenges for advertising chiefs in the post-recession, multi-media world? Two themes keep popping up: integration and diversification... more
Interview: David Kershaw’s nerves are frazzled but it’s not because the M&C Saatchi chief executive has just won the Tories’ advertising account... more
David Cameron calls in Margaret Thatcher’s favourite advertising men to shore up his election campaign as a shock poll showed the Tory lead vanishing... more
Advertising agency M&C Saatchi, which has been hired by the Tories to advise on a general election campaign for the first time since 1997, reports pre-tax profits fell 27% to £10.3 million last year... more
It was not so much an Obama Bounce as an Obama Flop in London today. City investors appeared completely underwhelmed by Barack Obama's historic Presidential victory in the US, with share prices showing big losses as trading got under way... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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