Accenture Interactive’s Karmarama has won the hotly-contested Lidl pitch, beating Leo Burnett, VCCP and WCRS to the German discounter which spends about £70m on UK advertising. Lidl was handled by TBWA which won many plaudits for its ads (above) but ...

WPP media agency Mindshare has been consulting its crystal ball for its fifth Mindshare Trends Report looking at the UK market. And it’s tech, tech and more tech although there’s some evidence that humans are fighting back. The five key ...

Oh all right then, let’s have another Christmas ad. This time we’re off to Chile for a touching tale of a volunteer firefighter who lands what nobody wants: the Christmas Eve shift. By Punkrobot and McCann Santiago for store chain ...

AG Barr brand Rubicon has appointed London independent Red Brick Road as its retained creative agency. The agency was appointed after a final pitch involving two others in a process run through Creativebrief. Rubicon is a fruit drink with a ...

It’s been a good year for Lucky Generals with loads of work from Amazon and now the majority Omnicom owned agency has won Co-op Group. Co-op’s last major creative agency was Leo Burnett. Lucky Generals will handle Co-op’s food, funerals, ...

More news in from WPP, according to Campaign Wunderman – now the driving force in merged agency Wunderman Thompson – has suspended its ECD Abi Ellis (below) following an “investigation.” We don’t know why, but we never do with these ...

It’s all change at WPP’s Ogilvy this year and now the WPP network has made another bold move by appointing Ogilvy India chairman Piyush Pandey (below) as its new global CCO. Pandey succeeds Tham Khai Meng who left under a ...

Holding company MDC Partners may reel around like a drunken sailor in a storm – it’s currently looking for another CEO and nobody seems to want to buy it – but its component agencies appear to function regardless. Now 72andSunny ...

Amazon’s UK Christmas ad from Lucky Generals seems to be one of the best performers even though it’s little more than heaps of Amazon deliveries to a winning soundtrack. Maybe other advertisers try too hard? WPP agency Hudson Rouge seems ...