Agencies

Change will do you good, according to Sheryl Crow. She’s right! And just as this reference belongs to another era, so do the old ways of working in advertising. Think about how anchored the ad industry has always been to ...

Instead of waffling on about “must try harder” Goodby Silverstein & Partners is making a big statement in the wake of the George Floyd killing (and the fatal shooting in Louisville in March of Breonna Taylor) with “Being black is ...

London-based awards scheme and charity D&AD (originally Designers & Art Directors) is cutting back amid the pandemic and CEO Patrick Burgoyne (left), a former editor of respected journal Creative Review, is leaving. COO Dara Lynch is taking over with chairman ...

Lots of senior creative musical chairs at the moment (to no-one’s great surprise) and London agency Above+Beyond has hired former BBH creative partner and Grey ECD Dominic Goldman as its new ECD. Group CCO David Billings is moving to other ...

Latest data from Ada shows the UK population are returning to Out of Home with roadside traffic now at pre-lockdown levels in some regions. Talon Outdoor has reported the latest findings from its proprietary Out of Home data management platform ...

Is this the best poster – ever? By writer Tony Brignull and art director Neil Godfrey for CDP in 1979. The Fiat 132 was a pretty unremarkable car (being polite here) so why show it? Apparently they had the devil ...

Timing is (almost) everything in launching a start-up, often crises like Covid-19 create opportunities for some: James Murphy and David Golding’s New Commercial Arts in the UK for example – every agency looks as big as the next on Zoom. ...

Caught a bit of this flipping channels over the weekend and thought: “why’s Volkswagen filming Gary Kemp and someone or other driving down streets of terraced houses/a suburban high street?” After a minute or so I gave up and flipped, ...

Nice to see that Mother US has been awarded Campaign’s gong for global independent agency of the year. British agencies have generally struggled in the US, unable mostly to cope with the sheer scale of the Madison Avenue establishment (and ...