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Who said models were only good for wearing (or not) clothes? One who deserves the sobriquet supermodel is Brazil’s Giselle Bundchen and she’s demonstrating her non-modelling talents here with a rendition of Blondie’s Heart of Glass for H&M and its ...

The ever-inventive Fred & Farid agency (Shanghai branch) is up to some more tricks, this time promoting clothes line Diesel Erotica in China by dressing it up as an Italian porn video. Such entertainments are frowned upon in China (officially ...

As adland limbers up for the Cannes Lions in June, it’s always worth keeping an eye on Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi in Buenos Aires which can be relied upon for some diverting entries. No idea if this, the agency’s ...

This month, April 25th marks two important events. First, it’s ANZAC day, commemorating the sacrifices of the Australian and New Zealand army corps in both World Wars – it also means a day off work. But many in the Australian ...

Campaign reports that Samsung has put its global creative and media accounts up for review, which hardly comes as a great surprise as the Korean tech giant spends billions worldwide on marketing, $3bn alone on PR according to some accounts. ...

There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left so the Smithsonian National Zoological Park and Conservation Biology Institute is launching a campaign through DDB New York to highlight their plight. DDB has devised the ‘Endangered Song’ project, 400 degradable records featuring ...

Looks like Unilever’s Axe (sold in the UK and some other markets as Lynx) is becoming Axe everywhere, unless Unilever goes in for some pointless re-cutting of this new ‘Soulmates’ campaign from BBH. As we predicted it would, aeons ago. ...

A week or so ago, because the current state of the ad biz is so boring and predictable, I decided to stir things up a bit by writing a post on AdScam titled, “The Best Agency In The World.” And ...

London creative agency 18 Feet & Rising has hired photographer Jonjo Borrill and director Kezia Tan for its in-house production arm, Make Made. Borrill and Tan will be responsible for the production of film and imagery for use online and ...

We’ve all been assuming that the Omnicom/Publicis merger will sail through, eventually, once the pesky Chinese regulators (who held up the Dentsu/Aegis deal) finally say OK. Alas this isn’t the only problem for Omnicom boss John Wren (left) and French ...