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Can a perky Christmas tune persuade us to love the EU and push for a second referendum? The People’s Vote campaign thinks so and agency BBD Perfect Storm has risen, somehow, to this rather daunting challenge. We’re the turkeys who ...

Nike is continuing its crusade against racism with an ad featuring Manchester City and England player Raheem Sterling who was racially abused in a recent match against Chelsea. This follows its lauded (and criticised in some quarters) ad featuring former ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s new S4 Capital is advertising for a legal internship (paid we hope) and candidates should be university law students, “fluent in Dutch, English and legalese.” S4’s MediaMonks is headquartered in the Netherlands. They should also be “discreet ...

YouTube has unveiled its top performing ads for 2018 through to December 12 (excluding Christmas) and there are some decent conventional ones – Lucky Generals for Amazon in first place, quite a funny one for OPPO F7 Indian cricket, ‘Dream ...

A Publicis Groupe combo of Starcom and SapientRazorfish has won Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ media account, said to be the biggest to move in North America this year. Starcom beat incumbent UM and Omnicom’s Hearts & Science to the business. It ...

Mark Elwood is executive creative director, MullenLowe London.   My creative highlights 2018   Colombia Ministry of Communications and Technology – “My Line” Agency: MullenLowe SSP3 Bogota Just a brilliantly simple idea, I know it’s from our network but so… ...

Two of indie agency Now’s founders Melissa Robertson and Kate Waters are leaving the agency after seven years. Waters is joining ITV as director of client strategy and planning while Robertson is staying with Now for another six months. Now ...

I’ve been in the ad biz since Genghis Khan invented the USP. So, consequently, I’ve been around the track a few times and I wish I had a dollar, or a quid, for every time I’ve been told by people ...

Lenah Ueltzen-Gabell was an award-winning equestrian in her younger days. She joined Wasserman in 2008 and oversees its international hub and EMEA Marketing Services in London. Since setting up in London, Lenah and her team have quadrupled the size of ...