Agencies
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First cut from this year’s creative crop of Epica entrants
Selfishly speaking, there are three good things about the Epica Awards. First, they are the only ones that allow specialist…
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Aldi gets it right for Christmas – in Australia
We thought Aldi’s UK Christmas ad was a touch tame; featuring pretty conventional jollity. There are so many of these…
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George Parker: why it’s not too late to award David Ogilvy the knighthood he richly deserves
Between copious amounts of Fourth Reich Potato Vodka during a non-stop snow storm last week, whilst flaneuring the “tubes” of…
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UK ad regulator gets volley of complaints about Sainsbury’s Christmas Great War epic
240 at the last count, complaining that the ad (below) is, among other things, ‘disrespectful’ and ‘cynical.’ Which is worrying…
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Paul Simons: marketing is about leadership – but you don’t see much of that in the Christmas ads
Last night I went to an event Lancaster University hosts annually at the Royal Society of Arts for alumni (and…
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Morrisons sings for its Christmas supper
DLKW Lowe has the populist touch and supermarket Morrisons occupies that (currently rather uncomfortable) end of the retail spectrum. So…
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Fold7 produces blingtastic global effort for Pandora
Fold7 is an interesting London agency, it seems to be able to win substantial accounts – Gocompare.com for instance –…
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Neogama/BBH saddles a winner for White Horse
BBH in London may be having its travails with client Diageo (which is reviewing BBH’s Johnnie Walker account for some…
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Does AMV’s Sainsbury’s epic owe a little too much to Paul McCartney’s ‘Pipes of Peace’?
UK free newspaper Metro has highlighted some similarities between AMV/BBDO’s ‘Christmas is for Sharing’ Great War epic and a Paul…
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