Agencies

We all expected something special from New Commercial Arts – the new agency from adam&eve founders James Murphy and David Golding with former BBH creative Ian Heartfield and Wunderman Thompson’s Rob Curran – but winning Vodafone’s global creative in a ...

After a long tussle with Engine over the UK Audi account last year, BBH now seems to be ceding ground to German agency Thjnk, which is launching a new global brand strategy for the carmaker this weekend. It will take ...

UK retailer Dunelm is having a good war in these straightened times, as is agency MullenLowe (read somewhere the other day that it and media agency OMG had been paid £68m for the Covid NHS campaign, so they’ll be retiring ...

This is a straightforward spot promoting the range of food available on Uber Eats, but it’s delivered with charmingly effortless style and humour by Kadiff Kirman — an actor who’s been in “Fleabag,” “I May Destroy You” and “Death in ...

Accenture’s decision to pull out of media auditing has (as we’ve noted before) opened up opportunities for others and now former Accenture Media Management CEO George Patten (below) has teamed up with former colleagues Alexi Benhamou, Deniz Urgun, Chi Ka ...

DentsuMB (they’ve wisely decided Dentsumcgarrybowen was far too much of a mouthful) has raided adam&eveDDB for its new UK CCO – former global creative director Simon Lloyd. He joins CSO Sophie Lewis, hired from VMLY&R in February, CEO Gareth Collins ...

You can still fly of course (if masochism’s your thing) but the days when BETC Paris could orchestrate all kinds of oh-la-la for Air France seem a lifetime away. Here’s probably the best known from 2015. And one of those ...

Boutique advisory firm Ciesco has been analysing this year’s M&A advertising and media deals to date and found – unsurprisingly – that the total is down year on year – by 17%. The first quarter (pre-Covid for many) saw the ...

Pizza ads do not usually trouble the scorers but agency Iris’ Parker for Pizza Hut (Parker J.Patterson in full) brings a breath of fresh air to what is often a pretty moribund sector. Here he is plugging Pizza Hut’s “most ...