Agencies

The UK may or may not be in recession or about to enter one as another six months of Brexit misery beckons but marketers seem to be trying to keep their end up. The latest IPA Bellwether Report from IHS ...

Bees are suffering it seems, with sone 700 American species threatened. So Pornhub and agency BETC Paris – who else? – are teaming with bee-saving organisations Operation Honey Bee and The Centre for Honeybee Research to launch ‘Beesexual,’ a new ...

Reading in MAA that Mother’s new campaign for Sky will continue to feature Idris Elba, I felt driven to burden MAA readers with my thoughts on “Star Fucking” in the ad biz. For years the title was held by BBDO, ...

Graham Fink, one of the ad world’s most talented and awarded creatives, is joining Seattle-based digital strategy and design studio This Place as CCO. This Place was co-founded by current chief design officer Ben Aldred and numbers T-Mobile USA, Ahold ...

Heimat’s ads for DIY retailer Hornbach are always challenging, especially if your German’s somewhat challenged. This one – ‘Morning belongs to us’ – seems to be some Easter-style spiritual experience, brought down to earth with a bump. Something for B&Q ...

Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun has rebutted an analyst’s suggestion that Epsolon – the data company for which he just paid $4.4 billion – was not a particularly coveted prize. During a presentation to analysts, Sadoun was asked why — ...

If advertising isn ‘t working you may as well try something else. At the same time as it’s announced a disappointing first quarter of 2019 – with organic growth down (again) by 1.6 per cent – Publicis (below) has confirmed ...

An Hour of Advertising…four things I learned from Dan Cullen-Shute At the start of the month, I launched ‘An Hour of Advertising’. It’s a series of long-read interviews designed to learn from some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. ...

Nivea is a global client for Interpublic Group’s FCB, but this new ad from the London office features a very British take on the whole sunscreen issue. Brits are prone to think that sunscreen is just for holidays abroad, so ...