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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 ...

Are agencies doing their bit in the Covid-19 crisis? WPP CEO Mark Read (below) thinks they are. Writing this week he said: “At WPP, we are working with international health authorities to promote effective handwashing, and we have offered our ...

The coronavirus lockdown seems to have sparked an indoor, online fitness boom, with YouTube star Joe Wicks (AKA “The Body Coach”) becoming the nation’s instant hero thanks to his daily 9am family workouts. Now Wicks, among other fitness gurus, has ...

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 ...

It’s an il wind, as they say… S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been opining on Sky News that the outbreak of what he somewhat contentiously called “the Chinese virus” in a City AM report (wouldn’t be SMS if he ...

One of the UK’s highest profile marketers, known for her commitment to diversity and inclusion, Syl Saller has is retiring from the her role as chief marketing officer at Diageo, where she has worked since 1999. Saller started out at ...

Guinness is never one to let a topical opportunity – however grim – slip and it scored a social media success with this image of a stay-at-home Guinness. Only it wasn’t “official” Guinness at all, it’s the creation of freelance ...

The challenge for Pay TV Pay TV platforms face a dual threat from SVOD (streaming) services. First, there is a decline in viewing caused by the streaming services and second, the downward pressure on prices as SVOD offer a lower ...

More creativity in the land of Coronavirus, St Luke’s top creatives Richard Denney and Al Young have created a new logo to be shared on social media, Stay Home Now (SHN) which is simply the existing NHS (National Health Service) ...