Analysis

So, Procter & Gamble has regained the lead over Amazon as the world’s biggest advertiser, spending $11.5 billion on global marketing in the fiscal year ending June 2021. No surprise when you consider they’ve been number one with the big ...

We all know that it’s sensible to save our money for a rainy day, but no one can deny that a bit of retail therapy is a wonderful thing. Once all of our necessities are covered, it’s nice to engage ...

The estimable Ad Contrarian Bob Hoffman is away for a while on vacation so he’s left us with some parting thoughts about the ad business. One item to catch his attention is WPP agency VMLY&R’s new schtick “human-centered design.” Obvious ...

There’s already a pattern emerging in our Ad of the Week: big, rich advertisers making big long commercials: Facebook via Droga5 and Discord (it seems well funded anyway) with AKQA. The first, of course, was 4Creative for the channel’s Paralympics ...

WARC, which run the Effies and is now owned by Cannes Lions proprietor Ascential, has released its finding into the Creative Effectiveness Lions, a mystery to some of us. Here’s Chiara Manco, commissioning editor, case studies WARC (which these awards ...

A year later than scheduled – and empty as its arenas may be – human excellence is back in the form of the Olympics and imminent Paralympics, and with it some pointers for us mere mortals negotiating storyboards rather than ...

The latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report predicts that UK adspend will grow by 18.2% this year to reach a total of £27.7bn. This is an upward revision from the 15.2% rise forecast in April and includes an estimated 54.7% rise ...

Now’s the time when we should take to the beaches, assuming you can get there and unseasonal floods haven’t washed it away. But it’s one of those years… Round about the time that a London Underground poster was causing a ...

BBH founder Sir John Hegarty is no fan of much contemporary advertising, seeing it as primarily click chasing at the expense of the brand. His The Garage Soho is an incubator that backs brands – including Simba mattresses and other ...