Dentsu has undergone a shift in top management on a global scale, with new global CEO Takeshi Sano in charge of an agency holding company that sits just under the Big Three — Publicis, Omnicom and WPP — but has taken its lumps over the last few years as it
It’s Nice That (INT): Can you guys introduce Los Campesinos! for anyone in our audience who may not know about you. Gareth Campesino (GC): Depending on who you ask, Los Camp! are either the UK’s first and only emo band, a bastion of principled independence and better than ever, or
Amazon sued Perplexity over its Comet browser shopping on Amazon under user authorization. On March 10, 2026, a federal judge in the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction blocking Comet from accessing Amazon’s logged-in pages. Roughly a week later, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals paused the injunction
This week has been another revolving door of chief marketing officer (CMO) hires and departures. We’ve rounded up the U.S. and global marketing leadership moves you need to know about for the week ending May 29. – OpenAI has hired ServiceNow‘s Colin Fleming as CMO for its business unit, a
Melvin Okoronkwo is a 3D character artist specialising in realistic humans and detailed hair. He enjoys bringing characters to life from concept illustrations using the best 3D modelling software. Below, he explains the inspiration and process behind the strikingly realistic 3D model, Lady Kököchin. “The main inspiration for this piece
Our next Ask A PPC tackles a question many advertisers are wrestling with right now: “Is Performance Max actually better than running separate campaigns?” Usually, this question shows up after an account has already run Search campaigns and is wondering if consolidating search themes into a Performance Max campaign is
If you’re like most brand teams I talk to, you’ve got a system for keeping tabs on the competition — dashboards, weekly reports, and someone scrolling competitor social feeds every few days. It feels organized. It feels like staying informed. But watching competitors and understanding what their moves mean are
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, has predicted that most professional white-collar work will be fully automated by August 2027. Marketing. Accounting. Legal. Project management. He named them. The day before, I’d been reading about Jensen Huang’s commencement address at Carnegie Mellon, where he told 5,800 graduates at one of
Publishers are quietly cutting six-figure AI licensing deals on Snowflake, as the data giant positions itself as matchmaker-in-chief between locked-down news content and enterprises keen to plug reliable publisher content into their own internal AI tools via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). For publishers, the cloud platform’s Cortex Knowledge Extensions act as
