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Burger King is reopening in France so here’s Burger Klean, a spoof airline safety ad from the brilliant Buzzman. Burger King and David Miami have also landed The One Show’s top creative gong for ‘Moldy Whoppoer.‘ Pretty revolting I’d say ...

Cannes Lions has been busily counting up its regional Agencies of the Decade (top award winners) and joining adam&eveDDB (European agency of the decade, below) are VMLY&R Dubai (Middle East and Africa), AlmapBBDO Sao Paulo (LatAm), Colenso BBDO Auckland (Pacific), ...

Remember 2018, when Publicis Groupe stayed away from Cannes Lions, in order to spend the money on its new inter-agency platform, Marcel? This year, when the rest of the industry is staying away, Publicis Groupe has got the keys to ...

These days would a (relatively) small brand essay a two-minute commercial from the hardly bargain basement talents of BBH? Yeo Valley did in 2010, two in the fact. This epic take-off of Take That (from ‘The Churned’) follows a two-minute ...

Ambitious marcoms group MSQ Partners has agreed a deal to buy smaller rival Be Heard Partnership for £6.2m. Be Heard was founded by Peter Scott, of WCRS and Engine Group fame. Scott left in 2018. MSQ is backed by private ...

Ogilvy is, or was, the biggest agency in WPP’s creative line-up and for WPP CEO Mark Read to achieve his promised “creative transformation” needs to be firing on all cylinders. Its new global CEO to replace long-serving John Seifert (41 ...

WPP’s GroupM reckons the the global advertising economy will lose $70 billion this year, dropping 11.8% (excluding US political advertising) to $517.5bn. With the US Presidential election the drop will be 9.9%. Next year advertising growth is expected to reach ...

Cannes Lions is doing its virtual bit and one of the topics – inevitably – is black representation in the ad industry. Here’s CEO of We Are Pi Alex Bennett-Grant with a taste. Bennett-Grant reckons casting is a particular problem: ...

Adam&eveBBD has been awarded the Cannes Lions European Agency of Decade; don’t know if there was such an award for the previous ten years but Wieden+Kennedy London would have been a contender, notably for Honda’s ‘Grrr’ which won the Grand ...