Author Archives: Emma Hall

Emma Hall is a journalist and editorial consultant and is the former Europe Editor of Ad Age, where she covered European marketing advertising, digital and media stories. She has written for newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times and the Telegraph, and was previously a section editor at Campaign. Emma started her career in New York as a researcher for a biography of Keith Richards.

Skyn condoms campaign to save intimacy from the awful grip of VR

These are your worst VR fears realised: a desultory strip club where lonely punters in goggles watch a hologram pole dancing. Sid Lee Paris makes a very effective case for real, flesh-and-blood encounters with a beautiful, sad, and stylish film ...

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Ogilvy ditches Mather and adds ‘crafts’ and ‘capabilities’

Ogilvy & Mather’s much-trumpeted rebrand to plain Ogilvy is reminiscent of J Walter Thompson’s change to JWT in 2005. JWT lasted until 2014, when it reverted back to its original name. Either way, the official branding tweaks didn’t in themselves ...

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Creativity is the answer for Adidas’ World Cup ad

Adidas’ World Cup ad is here, and it’s very different to the serious, hero-worshipping football ads of old. The mood of this new spot by 72andSunny Amsterdam is celebratory, as a roll call of 56 different sports and entertainment celebs ...

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Love Island 2018 entices more big brands on board

Love Island is back on ITV2, and the conversation remains as riveting as ever, with stationery supplies taking centre stage and one contestant asking, “What does ‘superficial’ mean?” But millennial and Gen Z audiences will no doubt be back in ...

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Sorrell is back with “next generation” advertising group

All those people who dismissed 73 year-old Martin Sorrell as too old to start again are now eating their words. The energetic Sorrell began dropping hints about returning to the fray not long after he was forced out of WPP ...

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Move over Marcel: Havas hits back with its own AI launch

Is this an attempt by Havas to steal the thunder from French rival Publicis Groupe? On the very same day that Arthur Sadoun launched his much-vaunted new AI platform, Marcel, Havas has opened an AI innovation centre in Montreal called ...

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JWT shares the “horrendous shame” of its gender pay gap

“It was horrendous. Embarrassing for all of us. Like a punch in the face. Shame on us.” Two brave souls from JWT London got up on stage at the Creative Equals conference to share the humiliation of having the worst ...

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