Agencies

Dentsu Aegis Network is strengthening its position in the north of England with the acquisition of independent Manchester creative agency, BJL. BJL’s clients include Subaru Europe, Ronseal, The Co-operative Bank, Skipton and BASF. The agency employs 75 people. Dentsu Aegis ...

Parents can be worse than their kids when it comes to playground politics, as Vauxhall has noted in its new campaign for the Crossland X. Owners of fancier SUVs shudder at the sight of their muddy children after a game ...

Ridley Scott is back on the commercials scene with a vengeance after decades making big budget movies. The director of Apple\s ‘1984’ and before that Hovis’ rural idyll helmed a recent epic for Turkish Airlines, which we didn’t like much ...

Ogilvy’s global CEO and chairman John Seifert seems to be coming to the end of his big overhaul of the agency, which began two years ago when he took on the role, but he acknowledges that his job will never ...

As Brexit confusion reigns, The Times and The Sunday Times are making a bold claim in its glossy new ad campaign, which promises “Politics. Tamed.” Created by in-house agency Pulse Creative (run by WPP and The & Partnership), it’s a ...

It’s been four months since WPP announced it would sell a majority stake in Kantar, and it looks as though a deal may be close: The Sunday Times reports that there are four suitors circling the £3.5bn research and data ...

The Royal Air Force and Engine won this year’s Channel 4’s Diversity in Advertising award with an ad that sends up stereotypes and challenges women to join the RAF. The soundtrack is ridden with women’s advertising clichés, set against real ...

Engine has won its first piece of business since ditching agency brands in favour of a single group identity. Saxo Group, a fintech specialist, has appointed the agency to handle the global advertising for its “active traders” account, following a ...

J Walter Thompson is facing an employment tribunal from a group of straight, white, middle-aged men who claim that they were victims of a diversity drive. According to Campaign, one of them turns out to be Chas Bayfield, who was ...