Stella Artois’ ‘Reassuring Expensive’ campaign by Lowe Howard-Spink kept the brand at the top of the UK tree long after it started to be made in the UK (as opposed to Belgium) and wasn’t that good any more. The campaign, ...

Nobody likes online paywalls very much but journalism isn’t free (to provide that is) and they are one way of supporting it. In the nearly ten years of More About Advertising we’ve been free throughout and intend to stay that ...

Adland brings constant reminders of the efficacy of Nigel Bogle’s remark – no agency is more than three calls away from a crisis – and AMV BBDO, long Britain’s biggest and one of its most admired agencies – has had ...

It’s Ramadan in the UK so Tesco is promoting its halal meats with this lively effort from BBH (presumably) as part of its ‘Food Love Stories’ campaign. Predictably it’s provoked a Twitter storm, in large part from people who disapprove ...

This is about as good as it gets, BETC Paris’ multi-award winner for Canal+,’The Bear,’ back in 2011. It’s beautifully crafted by Technicolor studio Mikros (best known for its feature films), funny and original. Director Mathijs Van Henningen perfectly captures ...

The UK’s agency trade body the IPA has joined a number of other agency associations worldwide (unspecified) calling on clients to cough up. Actually that’s not quite what they say – the official line is they’re caling for “each members’ ...

It’s interesting observing Publicis Groupe in the coronavirus crisis: go-go CEO Arthur Sadoun is making quite touchy feely videos weekly to inspire the troops while the number of said troops seems to be reducing rapidly. But thinning the ranks seems ...

Time was when a new agency needed a creative, a planner and a suit – Bartle Bogle Hegarty being the classic example – but these days life is a bit more complicated and James Murphy and David Golding’s new agency ...

Donald Trump’s gonna love this one: Ford’s ‘Built for America’ from Wieden+Kennedy hymning its patriotic creds and (highly praiseworthy) recent switch of production to manufacture health worker kit amid the virus. A timely spin (Ford goes back to making cars ...