Marketing magazine’s The Futurist Live! was kick-started by a high-power debate on the topic: is the client-agency model dysfunctional?

Richard Bleasdale Regional Managing Partner at Observatory International shares his views on what needs to be improved in client-agency ties.

At this time of year, with Christmas around the corner, hope is a common theme in the festive work created by our industry, writes Stuart Pocock, managing partner at intermediary Observatory International.

Confectionery and snacks company United Biscuits has appointed 3 Monkeys to work on its UK consumer, CSR and corporate PR following a hotly contested pitch.

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In ‘Are pitching agencies treated unfairly?’ (Campaign, 8 November), we heard much from the agencies’ perspective, but little from the clients’.

The client and agency relationship is at its most fundamental level an emotional one...

It’s a hoary old cliché, but it’s true: you don’t know what you’ve got until it has gone. Many agencies on the Government Procurement Service roster have been singing that Joni Mitchell refrain about the Central Office of Information since its demise last year.

How do the best buy marketing services? Paul Snell asks the experts and pioneers in this spend category to share their secrets...

For many, the merger of Publicis and Omnicom seemed like a further attempt at corporate willy-waving among an elite cabal of middle-aged men....