Best Ads of the Year

Best ads of 2016 Libresse – Blood I love the provocative nature of the idea. The expression in film is really striking and disruptive. Whilst other advertisers may go out of their way to avoid showing blood with graphics or ...

Here’s a brief (and early) look back at the spots of 2016. No internet epics, no Superbowl blockbusters no Olympic tear jerkers, just the spots that run every day informing buyers, engaging audiences…… and selling products (and candidates). The unfashionable, ...

It’s amazing that ISP TalkTalk is still with us, given some of its past disasters (mostly self inflicted). CEO Dido Harding is still talking the talk though, succeeding in annoying BT’s Gavin Patterson no end with her (mostly justified) criticisms ...

By Sacha Reeb, executive creative director of experience design agency Critical Mass London. Taking part in the Cannes creativity festival as a judge in the Cyber category was an immense privilege. Debating with some of the sharpest minds in the ...

April was far from the cruellest month for ads, particularly from UK agencies. After a slow start to the year there was a rush of good to great ads in April: JWT’s Rembrandt recreation by its Amsterdam office, Martini from ...

Wieden+Kennedy London produced our top scoring ad in March (8.5) with this pleasingly wacky debut for TK Maxx, which cleverly points out the range of products the retailer sells. A proper campaign from an agency recovering its best form. Other ...

Wieden+Kennedy spent a fruitless (though no doubt financially rewarding) three years trying to get something, anything, decent out for Tesco. Then Tesco upped sticks for BBH. The jury, as they say, is still out. Last year W+K won TK Maxx, ...

This is a bit risky – rounding up the best ads of 2016 on a monthly basis. No leaving it until the end of the year and forgetting the odd lapse of, er, judgement. Anyway, we liked Kwik Fit’s Christmas ...

Casting Eric Cantona for Kronebourg was inspired – obvious in a way but asking Eric to send himself up takes a degree of bravery. He reappeared earlier this summer in some spoof documentaries for the beer brand, promising to rise ...