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We haven’t always been kind about Vodafone’s UK advertising efforts – so why start now? Here’s its big new campaign from new agency Ogilvy & Mather, starring Martin Freeman of Hobbit and Sherlock fame, who’s apparently signed up for the ...

Trainer brand New Balance is banking on cricket this summer, a wise move because there’s lots of it and (fingers crossed) the sun seems to be shining. There’s no finer exponent of the old game (and its newer variants) than ...

Shnoosee Bailey is creative director of HeyHuman: Prior to HeyHuman she was executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi X and creative director at Publicis Dialog. My Top Tips for Cannes My predictions although perhaps a slam-dunk, are also without ...

Why do they do it? Champions League sponsor Walkers Invited fans to post selfies on Twitter with its front man Gary Lineker, who’s also BT’s lead presenter in its Champions League coverage, ahead of the June 3 final in Cardiff ...

Laura Rogers is a creative director at CHI&Partners. My Top Tips for Cannes My top tip for Cannes is to go to the festival. Yes, drink rosé until dawn, but then turn up at the Palais in the morning. It’s ...

VisitSweden’s advertising has redefined tourism marketing (Its ‘Swedish Number’ has picked up loads of gongs at Cannes) and now the whole country has been listed on Airbnb, as there’s a “freedom to roam” on public land. This one’s from Forsman ...

Sir Roger Moore, who’s died at 89, was best known for his rather unconvincing outings as James Bond (to my mind anyway) started as a knitwear model and went on to play Ivanhoe and The Saint on TV before Bond ...

Mars’ Whiskas is launching a new global campaign – ‘Feed their Curiosity’ – with a true story about autistic girl Iris and her new kitten Thula (cats are notoriously curious, of course). Iris was locked in her own world until ...

Publicis Media’s Starcom has retained Procter & Gamble’s £210m media account with an expanded brief, winning press buying among other tasks from WPP/GroupM’s MediaCom. P&G is the UK’s second biggest media account after Sky. Aegis’ Carat and new Omnicom media ...

The UK’s D&AD awards is an international affair these days and for the first time this year the UK was displaced as best performing country by the US. As such it may be a useful guide to Cannes for those ...