Agencies

The Christmas ad season is a big challenge for all retailers, never more so than now in the UK when the depredations of online buying and business rate rises are in danger of decimating the UK high street. A good ...

VW Commercial Vehicles is partnering with Men’s Health Awareness Trust in its current ‘Balls to Cancer’ campaign inviting men to get their privates checked. So agency adam&eveDDB has produced a pleasing little vignette on the subject. Will it make a ...

MediaMonk Sir Martin Sorrell revealed at a Campaign breakfast today that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment giant had offered 925p a share for his WPP back in 2012, just above what the share price is now (it used to be ...

Here’s the clear winner of the 2018 Tear Duct Award, for SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) shot at Copenhagen’s Kastrup airport by photographer Peter Funch and film maker Jeppe Ronde. It’s been accused by some of ripping off the Richard Curtis film ...

More Christmas stuff, this time AMV BBDO’s first effort for new client Asda, a veritable snowy wonderland. Read this morning that the end of November in the UK will see us buried in snow so we might all be fed ...

Accenture Interactive is boosting its already sizeable footprint in Germany with the acquisition of Hamburg’s Kolle Rebbe, ranked as Germany’s seventh-largest ad agency. In January Accenture bought Mackevision, a leading producer of computer-generated imagery and content, while last year it ...

There are signs that some advertisers are prepared to work a bit harder this Christmas, hardly surprising as half the high street in the UK (and the US) is pinning its hopes on a good trading season. So are the ...

Staff exits follow agency restructurings – usually flagged as making companies more client-focussed, nimble and all the rest of it – as surely as night follows day. Now it’s happening at Lake Capital-owned Engine in London with an all-staff consultation ...

I am sometimes asked by friends if I will talk to their children about a job in advertising. I assume this is because they do not want to be doctors, teachers, lawyers or go into the City, and they think ...