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“The chief business of America is business” opined President Calvin Coolidge (not usually known for his eloquence) in the pre-Wall Street Crash 1920s. It is for the New York Stock Exchange anyway and (British) The&Partnership’s New York office sticks to ...

Everybody was swinging in the mini-skirted ’60s it seems, even charity Oxfam. Here’s an ad for Vintage at Oxfam, which seems to have been an early chain of charity shops. A reminder to today’s charity advertisers to think outside the ...

Brands seem to go in one of three directions in response to Covid-19. There’s the empty “We’re here for you” promise, there’s the offer of practical support (Pret a Manger), and there’s providing entertainment, which is what Churchill is doing ...

Former BBDO New York CCO Greg Hahn, laid off by the Omnicom-owned giant in its Covid-19 retrenchment, has bounced back quicky – heading a US outpost of “alternative” Canada agency No Fixed Address (NFA.) Hahn’s enterprise is called [email protected] Fixed ...

The bosses of three ad holding companies – John Wren at Omnicom, Interpublic’s Michael Roth and Publicis’ Arthur Sadoun have weighed in as America explodes following the murder of George Floyd. WPP’s Mark Read can be forgiven perhaps for being ...

Here’s the Government’s film explaining ‘test and trace,’ its great hope for easing the UK out of lockdown. It’s simple and clear (MullenLowe?) so job done? But do they really expect people to self-isolate for 14 days – on the ...

James Murphy and David Golding have pulled a big win out of the bag by taking the Halifax account from adam&eveDDB. Halifax has a long history with this duo, who launched New Commercial Arts only two weeks ago. Murphy and ...

Tango HHCL 1992. I can’t believe it’s almost 30 years since the orange man ran onto TV screens across Britain to slap a Tango drinker’s face. It feels way more contemporary than that. It turned everything on its head. Not ...

Nobody likes online paywalls very much but journalism isn’t free (to provide that is) and they are one way of supporting it. In the nearly ten years of More About Advertising we’ve been free throughout and intend to stay that ...