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“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pilion Trust is a UK charity that tries to help the poor and, to try to get a better hearing, has commissioned Publicis London to produce this controversial number. Does it reveal our indifference to good causes or is it ...

Ian Maynard (left), head of marketing and business development director of London-based creative and production specialist network, says that even charities with limited budgets don’t have to use shock tactics to produce compelling, creative campaigns.   There are over 180,000 ...

The Royal British Legion has picked RKCR/Y&R to handle its huge UK Remembrance Day poppy appeal and also develop a platform showcasing its work for servicemen and women all year round. The agency pitched against Beattie McGuinness Bungay and M&C ...

Ian Maynard (left), head of marketing and business development director of London-based creative and production specialist network, examines the growth of charity advertising and the dangers for charities of relying too much on pro bono creative work.   The growth ...

Campaigning body Reporters Without Borders has produced a new campaign, based on the recent Sochi Winter Olympics (who thinks fondly of these now, given Vlad the Bad’s recent antics?) showing how hard it is to get at the truth these ...

THe UK may be keen to keep out immigrants of any hue (the politicians are, anyway) but it’s trying its damndest to attract tourists and VisitBritain is launching a new campaign to attract LBGT people (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) ...

The Met Police in London, and their trade union equivalent the Police Federation of England and Wales, haven’t enjoyed a good press recently with wearying examples of self-interested investigations and even widespread corruption. Which may have been on the mind ...