Agencies

Leo Burnett has appointed Carly Avener as managing director to work with her former Bartle Bogle Hegarty colleague, Charlie Rudd, who is CEO of the agency. Avener, who will be in charge of the day-to-day running and operations at Leo ...

TBWA London has been appointed as lead agency by Carwow, an online retail platform for new car buyers. Carwow previously worked with Creature London, which made the “Tamed” campaign (below), and TBWA claims that UK billings are worth more than ...

The Jäger bombs are on Engine: the German liqueur brand has appointed the agency to lead its global creative business, following a pitch that started more than a year ago. It’s an important win for Engine, which is trying to ...

Sandra Oh of Killing Eve fame (she’s the hunted who becomes the hunter) is a Canadian so here she is “travelling like a Canadian” for Air Canada, which seems to mean being polite, helpful and eager to embrace other people’s ...

As some of you may know, I have been in the ad biz since before Genghis Khan invented the USP. So, I’ve seen a lot of changes, some good, many not so good. Back in my Mad Man days we ...

Agency Above+Beyond made a punchy debut for Subway with an ad around a somewhat implausible ram raid, which we didn’t like very much. But it’s coming out punching again, taking on Napoli, the home of the pizza, with an offer ...

We all know you either love or hate Marmite but now the venerable brand is trying to turn haters into lovers via hypnosis – is this legal? You have to sign up for the “full experience” it says here. And ...

Something called the London International Awards seems to have landed itself in hot water at an event for young creatives in Las Vegas (no, me neither but it’s warmer than London) by inviting defenestrated Droga5 CCO Ted Royer to speak. ...

Can it really be 25 years since Smirnoff ran a global campaign? That’s what they say and Diageo’s biggest vodka brand is back with a cinema-style effort from 72andSunny New York, ‘infamous since 1864.’ Smirnov, as it then was had ...