Here’s a strange one, Wunderman Thompson for online bank First Direct. Every now and then First Direct has moved the curtains with its ads; seem to recall the late-lamented HHCL burnishing its reputation with the (then) challenger bank. This new ...

Has the Big Tech bubble burst? Disappointing quarterly results from Facebook owner Meta (although better than some expected), Google owner Alphabet (YouTube made a loss), Amazon (cloud business getting softer) and even the mighty Apple (supply chain problems in covid-hit ...

Publicis Groupe ended 2022 in strong style with Q4 organic growth of 9.4% (10.1% for the year) and reported net revenue for the year up a chunky 20%. As the French-owned holding company likes to remind us, data businesses Epsilon ...

The ad business, like most people who aren’t fortunate enough to produce raw energy or weapons, is facing a more than testing 2023. The media is no exception and, just like our bigger rivals, MAA has to chart its way ...

It’s Valentine’s Day on February 14 so we can anticipate a fair number of wince-inducing ads to celebrate it. Japanese condom company Skyn has entered the lists early with a social and digital campaign from UltraSuperNew – with nary a ...

We Are Social and media intelligence operation Meltwater have published Digital 2023, their latest report on social media and digital trends worldwide. As ever with these research offerings (and this is a biggie, 465 pages in all) it’s a combo ...

Kevin Bacon was once a rather fine, edgy Hollywood actor but for years now he’s been regaling us for EEC, courtesy of Saatchi and Saatchi. Offering seemingly little more than a trademark drawl and an irritating persona although there must ...

There seems to be fairly major deck-clearing exercise underway at IPG-owned McCann, with McCann Worldgroup global president and chief creative officer Alex Lopez, a former Nike marketer, leaving hard on the heels of McCann global chairman and CEO Chris McDonald. ...

One of the trickier assignments for any agency this year is the one that faces VCCP for Thames Water, the largely unloved UK water supplier that’s more famous for its leaks, untreated sewage and predilection for digging up the same ...