McCann Melbourne’s much-lauded Dumb Ways To Die for the local Metro system landed the Best In Show gong at the One Show awards in New York. At this rate the bookies will stop taking bets on it cleaning up at Cannes in June. But it is brilliant. The full list of winners is here. Other [...]
London-based social media agency We Are Social has poached creative team Graham Jenks and James Nester from OgilvyOne as the agency’s first creative directors. The pair produced the ‘Gnome Experiment’ campaign for Kern & Sohn scales which won digital and direct awards at Cannes last year and just about everything at the UK DMA (Direct [...]
Scam ads look like being the flavour of the year following JWT India’s Ford Figo fiasco. Now Leo Burnett has withdrawn two winning radio ads for Tata from the same Goafest ad awards and similar cases seem to be emerging from under every upturned stone. Sources in China tell us that Ogilvy’s 2012 Cannes Grand [...]
Former Kinetic boss Eric Newnham has shaken up the out of home buying business no end by winning huge chunks of business for his UK indie Talon. Biggest client is Omnicom’s OMG; next big one might be one of Publicis Groupe’s Starcom or Zenith. Might Omnicom or PG decide to take out this impertinent outsider? [...]
*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal framework preventing the bastards from just ignoring the rules and doing what they always have done. All perfectly sensible – so off [...]
Actually I’m not sure that’s true – Coca-Cola won its first lion in 1967 but has the Creative Marketer of the Year award (formerly Advertiser of the Year) been going all that time? But Coke’s award is certainly overdue. And (naturally) it was predicted to win in 2013 here back in the summer. Whatever you [...]
Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi has travelled a long way thanks to its work for Andes beer, most notably thanks to its ‘Teletransporter’ ad that shared the Cannes Outdoor Grand prix two years ago. Andes is one (but only one) of the reasons why it’s the most-awarded agency in South America and a world [...]
Interpublic’s R/GA has scored mightily with its work for the Nike+ Fuelband (is this the reason even more people are running up and down my street?), winning big at Cannes, among other things. But now Wieden+Kennedy Portland, Nike’s long-time ad agency, has got in on the act with this film which is a big YouTube [...]
The award (won by Mars this year) doesn’t go to an individual of course but Coca-Cola marketer Jonathan Mildenhall (left) has become the face of the mighty corporation and its excellent advertising. Coke won 30 Lions at this year’s festival (two more than BBH) so it’s a pretty safe bet that he’ll be up on [...]
Here’s Saatchi & Saatchi’s ‘Meet Your Creator’ light show for its 22nd New Directors’ Showcase at Cannes. Every year the agency seems to outdo its last effort and the showcase remains the highlight of each year’s festival. This one features 16 ‘quadrotors’ by KMel Robotics dancing to music by Oneohtrix Point Never (aka Daniel Lopatin). [...]
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