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Here’s some vertigo-inducing advertainment from Foot Locker and agency AMV/BBDO to launch Foot Locker’s new YouTube channel FLTV and plug its latest Running Collection. I was on the 32nd floor of a building in Canary Wharf yesterday but declined to ...

“Here’s two bags Julia..but they’ve loosened the rules…if not she’ll be cramming those bags of hers.” Eh? Wrong tense chaps. Michael O’Leary’s unlovely Ryanair has turned to advertising to try to spruce up its image and, in typical generous mode, ...

Condé Nast Britain has struck a deal with automated ad-buying software company RadiumOne, to extend the reach of ‘native’ ads in its titles across programmatic exchanges in real time. RadiumOne operates a worldwide ad and content-sharing network. Glamour magazine publishing ...

More ‘selfies’ (yesterday we had Fred & Farid for Avene in China), today it’s the turn of the World Wildlife Fund in a rather compelling campaign using Snapchat. When the next selfie might be the very last of a whole ...

The production agency/support agency business, currently dominated by TAG, just got a bit more interesting with the decision by Fred Schuster (left) to quit as CEO of Interpublic’s recently-established in-house operation Craftworks to start his own business, Fred&Co. Schuster, who’ll ...

I see that Vodafone has moved its £600m/800m media account, take your choice, into WPP’s GroupM – which must be about the least surprising account move in the history of account moves. The business, which had been with Omnicom’s OMD ...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Ian Tait departed Wieden+Kennedy Portland to become ECD of Google Creative Lab, a move that alarmed some of Google’s agencies as it looked as though the long-awaited in-house Googe creative agency was about ...

Mother London has been hired by the United Nations to develop a global communications campaign to improve sanitation for 2.5 billion people across the world. The UN’s Millennium Development Goals is its latest ant-poverty project and it has highlighted poor ...

IPG’s Lowe and Parthers has poached Havas high-flyer Naomi Troni (left) to be its first global chief growth officer – head of new business, in other words. Troni has spent ten years at Havas in key roles across Europe, the ...

It’s strange to see the mighty Apple on the back foot but that seems to be the case in its titanic marketing battle with Samsung. Now Ad Age reports that the tech company is to hire four new digital agencies: ...