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Campaign’s Jeremy Lee tells an extraordinary tale of a group of “white straight British male creatives” who are accusing JWT London of discrimination when they were made redundant after complaining about remarks made by female creative director Jo Wallace, to ...

Essence CEO EMEA Nick Baughan has joined the agency brain drain to tech/social media, joining Facebook as director of agencies in the UK and Ireland. Baughan (below), who’s worked for GroupM media agencies for 13 years, will be a big ...

There’s a lot of emotion around at Christmas – much of it of the ersatz variety you can buy in a packet – so it takes a deft touch from client and agency to make it work for you. Here ...

Brands seem to need a cause these days, and Coty’s Rimmel London has chosen to take on the cyber bullies of the beauty world with its #IWILLNOTBEDELETED campaign, featuring 14 real people, each of whom has a story to tell. ...

It’s a far cry from last year’s loveable Paddington ad, which had 6.9 million views on M&S’s YouTube channel alone. But popularity didn’t translate into sales, so for 2018 M&S has binned the blockbuster and created two unashamedly data-driven Christmas ...

Uber UK has appointed MullenLowe London to handle a 2019 driver recruitment campaign following a competitive pitch. The review was handled by Creativebrief. Uber head of UK Strategy, Irina Kondrashova says: “Behind the simplicity of the Uber experience lies a ...

We’ve got the Christmas ad winner already – and all because Clearcast, a company that acts as a broadcast ad regulator, in its wisdom banned it. It’s Iceland’s “the story of Rang-tang,’ an orangutang which invades a bedroom as nasty ...

News in last week’s Ad Age that that Procter & Gamble is reorganizing its management structure to get greater efficiencies from its semi-autonomous business units, almost made me choke on my breakfast beer. No matter how it reorganizes itself it ...

Video consumption is changing and so is Out of Home, leading to an exciting opportunity demonstrating how video formats can live on OOH screens. Pushing brands’ creative boundaries to enable social video to thrive on another platform is the basis ...