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More Game of Thrones-type stuff, this time from Grimbergen Belgian beer which has a deal with Carlsberg. With rather more heritage than Dilly Dilly. Grimbergen is made by Norbertine monks who hail from 1128 (and whose abbey burnt down three ...

D&AD has awarded its highest accolade, the Black Pencil, to three ad campaigns this year. Droga5 New York’s “The Truth is Worth It” for the New York Times won in the TV Commercial Campaigns category; Wieden + Kennedy’s “Dream Crazy” ...

Adam&eveNYC began with the Samsung account but we haven’t seem much to date (which doesn’t mean there hasn’t been any.) But now it’s in with a whopper, a global campaign for Samsung’s new QLED 8K TV (where do they get ...

BBC Breakfast literally stopped me in my tracks one morning last week. You would be forgiven for thinking that it was a breaking news story that caused me to spin around and stare at the screen, but no – the ...

Even Jamie Oliver isn’t immune to changing consumer trends To many it was a surprise that Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain went into administration this week. But if you look at all the trends in this sector, it was, unfortunately, not ...

Alastair MacCallum (below), currently UK CEO of The&Partnership’s M/Six media agency in which WPP is a minority shareholder, is to be the new UK CEO of Kinetic. Kinetic is WPP’s Out of Home media planning and buying unit, the biggest ...

To 76 Dean Street, Soho, where adam&eveDDB co-founders James Murphy (CEO) and David Golding (CSO) were departing for new pastures – specifically a year’s gardening leave but then a new agency. Among the pearls offered up was Murphy’s (or was ...

We may not love Amazon, although most of us use it, but it’s certainly been a boon for the creative agency business. Here’s Droga5 London again with its ‘great stories stay with you’ campaign for Amazon Prime, the star in ...

It’s quite brave of Carlsberg to tell us that the beer it’s been flogging in the UK all these years – probably the best beer in the world, ho ho – is crap but they are. Now they’ve been doing ...