Analysis

I think my blast from the past has to be pretty much every ad BBH did for Levi’s. Always different, always spot on and always dictating cultural conversation. But if I had to pick one it would be Flat Eric, ...

I remember so many bad ads from childhood. Take the Vortex one, where a woman visits a “bleach lab” and asks a boffin with a Petri dish and a weird voice which one performed best, “S’Vortex” he says. My brother ...

Renault from 1986 by McCormick Publicis They really don’t make them like this any more – a little drama in 60 seconds. Beautiful craft in the writing and production, perfectly cast, with believable characters and a wryly amusing twist in ...

In times of crisis as we are seeing with the Covid-19 pandemic, brands are wondering how to best invest their marketing efforts and which decisions will positively or negatively affect their business and reputations. Some things go without saying, like ...

We’re re-running some older faves as striking new campaigns are rather thin on the ground and here’s an oldie from 1976, Honey Monster from the great Boase Massimi Pollitt, probably the best TV agency under creative director John Webster. But ...

Facebook ad revenue is dropping more rapidly in the US than other Covid-19 hit markets according to new data from social media marketing company Socialbakers. Facebook is suffering an ad fall (as is Twitter) despite the rapidly growing use of ...

Bit of a shortage of noteworthy new campaigns (for some reason) so we thought we’d pick a few from the past to entertain and, maybe, inform. Would arguably be a bit too easy to go straight to the greatest works ...

Paulo Areas is CCO of Forever Beta, working with, among others, Rooney Carruthers of VCCP fame. He has held senior creative positions at Leo Burnett and Cheil and, before joining Forever Beta, was general creative director of Ogilvy in Madrid. ...

You can only take so much Covid-19, life has to go on somehow after all. But one thing it’s safe to say is that the world wasn’t prepared. We’ve noted that big businesses were not, happily spending nearly everything they ...