Agencies

American political advertising is red in tooth and claw and anti-Trump Republican group The Lincoln Project is putting the boot in – in vintage style – with ‘Mourning in America’ criticising Trumps’s handling (or non-handling) of Covid-19. To add insult ...

A study in early 2019 found that 77% of brands sold across Europe could disappear tomorrow and people would not care. It’s a pretty brutal reminder that much of the work of the industry in recent years, has failed to ...

RB’s Vanish – now dubbed a laundry booster” – doesn’t seem to lend itself to an emotional tale but that’s what it becomes in a new campaign from Havas London – ‘Love your Whites for Longer.’ For new variant Vanish ...

Latest data from Ada, Talon’s proprietary Out of Home data management platform, shows that traffic across the UK is slowly rising, up by 4% during week 5 of the lockdown when compared to the previous week. Out of Home media ...

Is a faux WFH happy hour/wine time evidence of the resilience of the human spirit or just another sign of how desperate we’re becoming in the lockdown? Kirin-owned Bulleit “frontier” bourbon (think the original maker was German) is aiming squarely ...

Was this 1979 effort the best TV ad of all from great British ad agency CDP? There were so many, often notable for their use of humour and celebs. This, though, was something different – an operatic epic (heaven knows ...

Nigel Bogle of BBH fame famously observed that no agency was more than three phone calls from disaster (these days it’s probably emails) and, as if they didn’t have enough on their plates, VCCP and adam&eveDDB, two of the UK’s ...

Here’s Maurice Levy in lockdown, telling The Drum’s Stephen Lepitak about working from home, his brief spell seconded (it seems) to WeWork and working with his successor as Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun. No chateau by the sea for Maurice ...

A Fishbowl US survey, reported in Agency Spy, shows that advertising and marketing people lead the field when it comes to drinking at home while at “work” in these WFH days – an impressive 49.14%. For once lawyers are beaten ...