Best Ads of the Year

Wieden+Kennedy London’s having a good year so far and its ‘Go Binge’ campaign for Three continues the rich vein, with another inimitable invention ‘dolph-a-sloth.’ W+K manages to make Three likeable, no mean achievement for a mobile provider. Come on Vodafone, ...

Mars’ Whiskas is launching a new global campaign – ‘Feed their Curiosity’ – with a true story about autistic girl Iris and her new kitten Thula (cats are notoriously curious, of course). Iris was locked in her own world until ...

Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam has won The Glenlivet globally. The Glenlivet, owned by Chivas Brothers, claims to be the world’s oldest single malt whisky and the number one such brand in the US. Global brand director Miriam Eceolaza says: “Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam is ...

There were some really good ads in March, lots of nine scores, but one stood out – Droga5 London’s debut campaign for Seat. This is tough on FCB Inferno’s new Sport England ad, and others, but car advertising is a ...

WPP digital agency Wunderman is on a roll at the moment and it’s picked up the BT/EE direct marketing account in a pitch against Omnicom’s Proximity. This is the second big consolidation at BT, having already rolled its £150m media ...

And what, you may ask, is m/SIX? M/SIX is Johnny Hornby’s media agency that sits in The&Partnership, the rapidly-growing international network of companies based on Hornby’s London agency CHI. CHI/T&P are 49 per cent owned by WPP so m/SIX enjoys ...

Saw Publicis Media boss Steve King performing at a conference last summer, with admirable sang froid given that Publicis’ media agencies were losing massive bits of business left, right and centre. The tide seems to have turned though and now ...

The Gunn Report into ad awards for 2016 names BBDO as the Most Awarded Network, adam&eveDDB the Most Awarded Agency (two of the top four are from New Zealand), Burger King’s ‘McWhopper’ Most Awarded Campaign, USA Most Awarded Country, Samsung ...

Wieden+Kennedy London says on its website that it exists to create strong and provocative relationships between good companies and their customers. Its debut campaign for Sainsbury’s, after winning the business from long-terms incumbent AMV BBDO, has certainly proved provocative: some ...