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And we’re back, so let’s take some time to overcome our recently acquired social anxiety and mentally prepare ourselves. One way to get back into the swing is to remaster the art of buzzword-ery. Yes, the time has come to ...

Top Tips for Cannes Not only do these pieces of work use technology in an interesting way, but they demonstrate the crossroad of creativity, technology and humanity. The best ideas these days, I think, come from this holy trinity and ...

Leo Burnett has released its 34th annual Cannes Predictions ahead of this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – forecasting the agency’s 20 frontrunners to win the festival’s coveted Lions. For the second year, Leo Burnett global chief creative ...

HSBC, the bank described as “too big to jail” over money-laundering allegations in Mexico, doesn’t avoid potential controversy in its marketing either and it’s back with a cracker from David Buenos Aires. ‘Dear customer’ is about the perils of identity ...

Nicky Bullard is chief creative officer of MullenLowe Group UK. One of the UK’s leading ad executives, she was formerly chair and CCO of McCann Worldgroup’s MRM Europe and executive creative director of LIDA/M&C Saatchi. Desert Island Ads There are ...

Someone’s come up with a scheme to abate the cost of living crisis at last – not the hapless UK government or the Bank of England (both of whom seem to be sleepwalking into a recession) – but MoneySuperMarket and ...

This one’ll cheer you up. The&Partnership for British Gas Energy Trust promoting its helpline for people who can’t afford to keep the heating on as energy prices (including British Gas charges) go through the roof. A hostage to fortune if ...

A veteran creative director, bemoaning the state of ads (ads you do) told me other day that they’re all about “information” these days. Clients insist on cramming everything in rather than letting the brand do the work. Samsung is certainly ...

Actually this could just as easily been a blast from the Past, Engine for Old Speckled Hen, a campaign that’s been running off and on for over 20 years. Engine Creative, to give it its full moniker, was formerly WCRS, ...