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P&G’s Old Spice is determined to get us off the lockdown couch and into the driving seat in this diverting new effort – ‘Winner’ – from Wieden+Kennedy. P&G says we’re all miserable so need cheering up, especially young men – ...

Sector-specialist M&A advisory firm Ciesco has reported global resilience in the tech, digital, media and marketing sectors even in the face of the Covid crisis. Ciesco tracked global M&A activity in these sectors, reporting 1,091 M&A transactions in 2020, with ...

Super Bowl ads seem to be shaping pretty well despite a different line-up (a good thing maybe) but one of the big hits last year – P&G’s Tide – is back with another winner from Saatchi & Saatchi New York. ...

Here’s an epic for a Friday, Apple celebrating the Chinese New Year with a short (not that short) film from TBWA\Media Arts Lab Shanghai for – and shot on – an iPhone 12 Pro Max. By director Lulu Wang and ...

Is the ad business, specifically the big data-obsessed holding companies, sleepwalking into disaster as they try to hoover up information about consumers everywhere? Epsilon, which Publicis Groupe bought for $4.4bn in 2019, has agreed a $150m settlement with the US ...

The&Partnership has deepened its relationship with Toyota’s Lexus by teaming with Wunderman Thompson to win the Lexus UK CRM account from Publicis’ Digitas. T&P is part-owned by Wunderman Thompson owner WPP. Lexus UK customer relationship marketing manager Mark Benton says: ...

The government has withdrawn a Facebook ad that shows exactly what it thinks women should stay home for: baby care, home schooling, or cuddling up to a man on the sofa. Apparently a government spokesman suggested that it didn’t reflect ...

Reckitt Benckiser Health has appointed Publicis Media to work on its media strategy, digital planning and purchasing across central European markets including Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Following a competitive pitch, Publicis Media, working with Publicis Groupe’s ...

Well maybe not sublime but London agency Dark Horses has ventured outside its sports marketing speciality with a new Out of Home campaign for low alcohol beer Small Beer. Nice and simple anyway: MAA creative scale: 7. Meanwhile, at the ...