There’ve been some very good ads this month – which we’ll round up in due course – but an awful lot of tosh too. Here’s Nat West (part of stricken RBS) telling us, courtesy of M&C Saatchi, that “We are ...

Peppersmith, which makes dental mints and gum, has appointed Common Industry to develop a new brand campaign. Common Industry describes itself as an independent communications company that blends the brand strategy and creative abilities of an ad agency with the ...

Piecing together the details of Omnicom’s new DDB-based creative agency for McDonald’s is a diverting entertainment and some clues have emerged from an Adweek panel in New York. McDonald’s CMO Deborah Wahl (below right with DDB’s Wendy Clark) said the ...

Business Insider has produced its annual list of the 30 most creative people in advertising (or whatever we call it these days). Actually it should be the 30 most most creative on either side of the pond as they’re all ...

She may not fancy the soubriquet very much but she is. Saatchi & Saatchi’s esteemed global CCO Kate Stanners (below) is now its new ‘chairwoman’ too, replacing the defenestrated Kevin Roberts, part of a veritable smorgasbord of new titles at ...

One Louise Delage has been captivating much of France on Instagram with thousand following the chic Parisian and her party-loving lifestyle. But now charity Addict Aide and agency BETC Paris have revealed there’s a dark side to all that drink-fuelled ...

Much moaning and groaning in the British weekend press about the failure of the Remain campaign in the Brexit vote to allow its agencies to hanmmer Farage, Johnson, Gove and co and, maybe, swing the vote their way. It’s gloves ...

Flight search and travel deals website Cheapflights, has appointed McCann London as “lead content agency” to accelerate its international growth. McCann has already worked with Cheapflights’ sister brand momondo (both part of Momondo Group) on a series of interactive campaigns ...

Does my bum look big in this? What a question – “it ain’t about what’s behind me,” at least if you’re wearing Wrangler Bespoke Jeans. Wrangler says its “trying to change the conversation” about women and their features with a ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack, Tom and David highlight the rather sad news that the media transparency concerns are not going away anytime soon. Stories have been emerging this week from Japan where Dentsu, the dominant advertising services group, has admitted ...