Agencies

Campaign is celebrating its 50th birthday with a big glossy special edition (below) – worth the somewhat numbing £17.50 if you can find one. There are highlights, lowlights, some amazing work (very little of it recent alas) and some amazing ...

WPP is in advanced talks to buy the Financial Times’s London headquarters at One Southwark Bridge for £93m, continuing the trend of giant centralised HQs in adland. It already has similar operations in Amsterdam and Toronto. At the same time ...

Mobile networks used to be a premium sector for creative advertising, but the brands have long ceased to be distinctive. EE’s long-running Kevin Bacon campaign has fallen off lately, and O2 is trying something new with George the Poet instead ...

Martin Sorrell has maintained the love of a good analogy that he famously developed while CEO of WPP. He used them freely as he pronounced on the future of ad agency holding companies and the state of WPP during an ...

This is Amazon Prime Video’s first real brand advertising campaign, and it cleverly taps into the box set bingeing culture by imagining what might happen when a viewer gets too immersed in a show. A downtrodden woman learns to be ...

San Francisco agency Erich & Kallman has created a two-minute plus public service announcement where US television host Mike Rowe gets an actual prostate exam from his real doctor on camera. The spot, for non-profit ZERO – The End of ...

The judges’ decision was unanimous: Bartle Bogle Hegarty won the 2018 IPA Effectiveness Grand Prix for its work with Audi, a client of the agency since its launch in 1982. BBH – which also won Effectiveness Company of the year ...

Carslberg is launching Unfiltered, real beer for real, um, people with agency Fold7’s first global campaign. Actor Mads Mikkelsen is doing the duties once more, gradually becoming more dishevelled to show..precisely what? The baddest of bad hair days? Carlsberg ads ...

WPP is putting a brave face on its loss of the Ford creative account, telling the world it’s been appointed as Ford’s “activation” agency. This includes dealer advertising (so-called Tier Two), PR, production, Ford work with a partner in China ...