VCCP has won the Dogs Trust account after a three way pitch, and has been appointed to develop a new brand platform for the UK’s largest dogs charity. Dogs Trust will keep its famous line, “A dog is for life,” ...
Read More »House 337 launches The Demand Index into fashion market plus new ethical consultancy
House 337, formerly Engine Creative, seems determined to do things differently – the appliance of science you might call it, although that was washing machines – and it’s launching The Demand Index, a set of sector-specific reports. First up is ...
Read More »Cats v technology: Buzzman’s latest spot takes no prisoners
Cats aren’t the only ones with multiple lives — Back Market’s refurbished technology can give them a run for their money in Buzzman’s new film. It’s an entertaining drama featuring sinister cats bent on destroying devices; a Hitchcock pastiche rendered ...
Read More »AKQA founder Ajaz Ahmed pays tribute to Dan Wieden
This is a note from AKQA Group founder and CEO Ajaz Ahmed to colleagues on the death of Wieden+Kennedy founder Dan Wieden. Dear Team, With deep sadness, I learned this evening, that Dan Wieden, co-founder of Wieden+Kennedy, passed away on ...
Read More »Ikea home has a mind of its own in Mother’s latest campaign
Mother has found a subtle way to advertise Ikea without overly promoting consumption in this latest ad, which shows a family settling into their new home. The house is not welcoming at first – a welcome mat shifts to read ...
Read More »The&Partnership unleashes heavy emotion for RNIB sight loss campaign
Can you have too much emotion, even in the service of an extremely good cause? The&Partnership flirts with it in this new cinema film for The Royal National Institute of Blind People showing schoolgirl Ava trying to come to terms ...
Read More »George Parker: let’s hear it for Bob Hoffman’s Adscam
AdScam… The Blog… The Book… Readers of More About Advertising may or may not know that I have written a blog titled “AdScam” for the last twenty years or so. In it, I point out the occasional good thing happening ...
Read More »Is Dan Wieden’s death the end of the golden era for creative agencies?
In the very early days of MAA we reported a confab at Cannes when the bosses of the big ad holding companies – Marin Sorrell at WPP, Maurice Levy at Publicis, John Wren at Omnicom and Michael Roth at Interpublic ...
Read More »DHL takes Coldplay on tour in new ad by 180 Amsterdam
This is a new type of sponsorship deal: DHL is the “official logistics partner” for Coldplay’s world tour, which kicks off in Brazil next week and goes on for nine months. 180 Amsterdam’s ad shows a DHL driver charging her ...
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