BBH’s work for Levi’s made me want to work in advertising. It’s an amazing body of work with so many high points, but if pushed to choose, it would have to be ‘Creek.’ Not the coolest Levi’s ad, not the ...

Brown-Forman’s Chambord black raspberry liqueur has picked the UK’s Southpaw as its global strategic creative agency after a four-way pitch. In 2014 Chambord launched the ‘Because No Reason’ campaign from Wieden+Kennedy globally but has turned to Southpaw to build on ...

Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN), the Japanese giant’s business outside its homeland including Carat, 360i and Merkle, has announced that it’s cutting all 45,000 or so salaries by ten per cent, more for senior managers. DAN says: “As a result of ...

If there’s one thing more terrifying than a global pandemic to many a teenager, it’s the thought of sitting your GSCEs. Horrendous though this sounds, if I was told at 15 that I would have to skip the rest of ...

Publicis Groupe has announced its mostly pre-Covid-19 numbers for the first quarter of 2020 – net revenue up 17.1 per cent with a full contribution from $4.4bn data business Epsilon but organic growth of minus 2.9 per cent, in line ...

Guinness ‘Swim black’ from AMV BBDO is one of my all-time favourite commercials. Released over 20 years ago, I still love everything about it – simple, engaging, and entertaining. It always brings a smile to my face. It’s the ad ...

Let’s rewind a year. Warnings of travel restrictions, supply chain shocks, potential job losses, medical supplies not getting through, lorries backed up at the border, some of us had even started stockpiling – remember Brexit? There was fear and bitter ...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is doing her bit to persuade people to stay home in the virus, but going the extra mile for California governor Gavin Newsom. Celebs saying they’re on our side too have become rather tedious. Doing without your “glam ...

BASF is hardly a household name but the German company is said to be the world’s second-largest chemicals producer so it’s pretty substantial. WPP has been struggling in the US of late so the appointment of VML/Y&R to handle its ...