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The John Lewis Christmas ad from adam&eveDDB is due to land any day now – reportedly featuring Elton John warbling Your Song – and London’s Evening Standard thinks it has a clip from it here, revealed on Twitter. Before you ...

Here’s Amazon’s ‘Holidays’ ad from Lucky Generals, showing, er, lots of Amazon deliveries to the customary Christmas feel good backdrop. And that’s it. Given some of Amazon’s excellent recent efforts it’s a disappointment. A bit like AMV BBDO’s recent debut ...

Samsonite is celebrating ten years of its Cosmolite lightweight range with an enigmatic film ‘Lost and Found’ from Hanzo Films in Dubai and director Ali Kurr. The posh suitcase finds itself in unlikely hands – somewhat down on their luck ...

The Christmas ad season is a big challenge for all retailers, never more so than now in the UK when the depredations of online buying and business rate rises are in danger of decimating the UK high street. A good ...

VW Commercial Vehicles is partnering with Men’s Health Awareness Trust in its current ‘Balls to Cancer’ campaign inviting men to get their privates checked. So agency adam&eveDDB has produced a pleasing little vignette on the subject. Will it make a ...

Here’s the clear winner of the 2018 Tear Duct Award, for SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) shot at Copenhagen’s Kastrup airport by photographer Peter Funch and film maker Jeppe Ronde. It’s been accused by some of ripping off the Richard Curtis film ...

More Christmas stuff, this time AMV BBDO’s first effort for new client Asda, a veritable snowy wonderland. Read this morning that the end of November in the UK will see us buried in snow so we might all be fed ...

Accenture Interactive is boosting its already sizeable footprint in Germany with the acquisition of Hamburg’s Kolle Rebbe, ranked as Germany’s seventh-largest ad agency. In January Accenture bought Mackevision, a leading producer of computer-generated imagery and content, while last year it ...

There are signs that some advertisers are prepared to work a bit harder this Christmas, hardly surprising as half the high street in the UK (and the US) is pinning its hopes on a good trading season. So are the ...