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Launching a new product is a big deal. Every launch, however well researched and planned, has the potential to bomb. In an unpredictable world, fraught with risk and uncertainty, pushing the boundaries on innovation and creativity might feel risky and ...

Diageo’s Johnnie Walker seemed to abandon ‘Keep Walking’ when it abandoned BBH for Anomaly. But it’s on its way back, not roaming around the glens but, in this instance, riding a sinister train in Brazil, courtesy of Anomaly’s MDC stablemate ...

Here’s a cheeky number from Bud Light of all brands, taking a pop at craft beers and their exotic ingredients. While you can depend on Bud Light’s combo of barley, rice (rice!), water and hops. From Wieden+Kennnedy presumably. Neatly done: ...

We observed earlier that agencies need zero-based creativity in today’s marketing world – less fancifully, perhaps, that they need to take the work where they can find it. As FP7/McCann in Beirut is doing here with a music video, ‘Roman,’ ...

YouTube, Facebook and Fox (among others) have decided that what we need are more six-second video ads. Why six seconds? It’s longer than five but shorter than seven..dunno. Of course all three want more ad dollars. Any other benefits? The ...

Much chatter in adland about the way the declining fortunes of FMCG – or consumer products – companies are impacting agencies. Procter & Gamble and Unilever are cutting back advertising and the number of agencies they use although they still ...

The UK’s IPA agency trade body has formally called on Google-owned YouTube and Facebook to work with the IPA and ISBA (the advertiser equivalent) to bring the safety, measurement and viewabillity of their online video up to acceptable industry standards. ...

Here’s a teaser from BBH Sport for new betting client bwin, inviting us to bet on a CGI car race (the main pan-European campaign with three such races breaks in the autumn). A departure, say client and agency from the ...

When your (highly paid) job is to work behind the scenes it’s usually commercial suicide to become the story. This is exactly what is happening to London PR firm Bell Pottinger – whether or not it amounts to commercial suicide ...

Global marketing consultancy R3 has produced its review of deals in July 2017 and a pattern seems to be emerging: the big acquirers in 2017 appear to be Dentsu, WPP and Accenture. Dentsu is busily buying what we might call ...