By Paul Simons on January 11, 2013
The news was predictable albeit the detail about UK retail trading was not so easy. Would Tesco pull back share, would M&S turn the corner, would HMV survive? Then camera chain Jessop goes bump in the night before we’ve taken down our Christmas decorations. How come John Lewis cleaned up and posted record sales? Lots [...]
Posted in Analysis, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged christmas, customer service, jessops, John Lewis, marks & spencer, Morrisons, online, peter jones, Sainsburys, Tesco, uk retail
By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2012
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, christmas, Dan Wieden, David Petraeus, IPG, Jimmy Savile, Lord Patten, Michael Roth, publicis groupe, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tony Hall, WPP
By Staff on December 18, 2012
Aren’t ‘cha getting a bit tired of Christmas (and there’s still a week to go)? Anyway Google+ has enlisted Aardman Animation’s famous Wallace and Grommit characters to try to stake its claim on a piece of the Christmas cake of our attention. Google+ has actually been a big hit, after a few false starts from [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News | Tagged christmas, google, social media, wallace and grommit
By Angie Dean on December 12, 2012
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas do they? And they gobble a lot. These are the two seminal jokes in this McCann London film for Paxo, stuffing in a packet for those of us who are going to make something wonderful and, in the end, can’t be bothered. Well it’s quite funny. Will it sell more [...]
Posted in News | Tagged christmas, gobble, mccann london, paxo, stuffing, turkeys
By Stephen Foster on December 12, 2012
Thanks for all the online Christmas cards, obviously we can’t do all of them. Sometimes they’re an opportunity to take the mickey about all the task which are deal with duly seriously the rest of the year. And there’s some of that in this funny film from Cossette in Vancouver. A bit tough on the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged christmas, cossette, fruitcake, online card, pancakes, vancouver
By Stephen Foster on November 27, 2012
I’m coming to the conclusion that Adam&Eve/DDB (or the Adam & Eve bit anyway) consists of saint-like figures who graciously bestow their benedictions on grubby humanity. Fresh from turning John Lewis into a British institution that ranks somewhere above the Queen and not that far behind Boris Johnson, it has now produced a charity ad [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adam&eve/ddb, charity ad, children's wish foundation, christmas, crush, emily's story, John Lewis, kbs+p toronto, save the children
By Stephen Foster on November 21, 2012
The way Coca-Cola colonises Christmas is quite remarkable: it’s a fizzy drink, best drunk very cold and synonymous with summer. Should have fuck all to do with Christmas. So being the agency charged with the great responsibility of invading Christmas must be a bit daunting. This Christmas campaign was unleashed a few days ago with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged christmas, coca-cola, madrid, mccann, polar bears, trucks, tv campaign
By Staff on November 16, 2012
The British seem to love monkeys in ads and Barclaycard’s recent opus from BBH featuring a large version is packing them in on YouTube with nearly 250,000 hits in about a week. The aforementioned beast bears a certain similarity to the monkey who fronted up for the long-defunct ITV Digital and then for PG Tips [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged baclaycard, bbh, christmas, itv digital, Johnny Vegas, monkey, pg tips, toys
By Stephen Foster on November 13, 2012
Boots and agency Mother have put their perky girls (as in ‘Here Come the Girls’) out to grass (they’re a bit matronly by now) and replaced them with a new Christmas campaign which is…what? A nice warm feeling and not much else, if the truth be told. Apparently Boots wants to all appeal to all [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged best gifts for giving, boots, christmas, Elton John, feelgood ad, here come the girls, let's feel good, mother
By Stephen Foster on November 5, 2012
What to make of this dear readers? Wieden+Kennedy has unveiled its second ad for Tesco and it features a (nicely cast) middle class female (how do we know? We know) purchasing a gruesomely cheesy Christmas gift, a Furby it seems, via her Clubcard. This appears to be some sort of spiritual awakening on the part [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Asda, christmas, every little helps, furby, Matt Atkinson, Tesco, wal-mart, wieden+kennedy london
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