Publicis' flagship media agency has published its latest global advertising expenditure forecast, suggesting that Europe is "acting as a brake on global ad growth" compared to the flourishing networks across the world.

September has been the month of redesign for the U.S search giants - first Yahoo!, then Bing. And now, Google, the biggest of them all, has unveiled a remarketed app launcher as well as a new logo.

Publicis, the Parisian advertising giant, has secured the acquisition of London digital agency Poke for £10m.

An anonymous source purporting to work for Google has suggested that third party cookies - collected for targeted advertising - will be replaced with a new software not unlike Apple's iAd, which collates mobile data. Safari has blocked third-party cookies since 2003.

Following the fine example of Yahoo! over the last month, Microsoft search engine Bing has overhauled their design and added two new features to improve results.

Thanks to a world-first training camp in Barcelona, a partnership between search marketing agency WebCertain and Russian search giant Yandex has created a host of multilingual PPC Managers after just three days of comprehensive paid search tutoring.

Now Google's Panda update is part of the algorithm and everyday indexing strategy, web administrators are concerned their site might be about to get hit hard with a search rankings penalty. In light of this mild global panic, Google's Head of Spam Matt Cutts has released a new video to allay all fears...

GroupM's MediaCom has defeated ZenithOptimedia to retain the global media account for banking and financial services company UniCredit.

A report from the Office of National Statistics has shown that unemployment in the UK has dropped to 7.7%, down 0.4% from the same period in 2012.

Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband has pledged the abolition of zero-hour contracts for temporary workers ahead of tomorrow's Trade Union Congress conference.

Pharmaceutical conglomerate GSK has split their billion-dollar media planning and buying accounts between fierce rivals WPP and Omnicom, ousting agencies from Publicis and Aegis.

In what might be the most delicious marketing and branding strategy since Manchester United's official tomato juice sponsor, American tech giant Google have announced the latest version of their Android operating system will be called KitKat.

Steve Ballmer hasn't quite ridden off into the sunset yet. The Microsoft CEO has agreed a $7bn acquisition of Nokia's mobile division, transferring hardware licenses, patents and 32,000 employees.

French media group Havas have announced a rise of 8% in pre-tax profits to £74.6 million (€88 million) in the first half of 2013.