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The UK’s ASA has banned its first ads under its new fatwa against “harmful gender stereotypes,” ads from Mondelez’s Philadelphia and VW which ASA investigations manager Jess Tye says could cause “real world harms.” In the case of Philadelphia, which ...

Lucozade has split with ten-year agency Grey London it seems following a review by owner Suntory and a new marketing director moving from Suntory’s Ribena. Suntory bought Lucozade and Ribena from GSK in 2013. Grey had more than its fair ...

Danish-owned Maersk is the biggest shipping line in the world, it carries everything but passengers because its founder deemed them “too difficult.” As Carnival Cruises might be inclined to agree. So it has the wherewithal to produce this almost completely ...

Car advertisers are producing some rum stuff these days – maybe connected to the seismic changes taking place in the industry. They’re either trying to sell something new – “lifestyle” choices as in BMW’s new campaign from Serviceplan yesterday – ...

BMW is running a big global campaign from Serviceplan Campaign International – ‘Choose your X’ to try to inject some life into its by now rather venerable X Series SUVs. It’s presented, as many other cars are these days, as ...

Waste bags are hardly exciting but they’re quite top of mind just now – as everyone agonises about waste destroying the planet, the oceans, the universe you name it. So Clorox may be right to go big time with a ...

Someone, somewhere must have thought of putting coffee in a bag – but ground coffee? In the Nespresso era it’s a sensible enough move so Taylors of Harrogate has done so – with another gently amusing effort from Lucky Generals ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has added a third major leg to its business, buying what it calls Europe’s largest influencer agency IMA to merge with its MediaMonks digital content business. Both are based in Amsterdam. S4 also owns the MightyHive ...

Is Anomaly a success or not? In particular its London outpost? It’s working for Unilever on something or other globally and now it’s been hired by Vodafone tasked with “providing strategic and creative insight for Vodafone’s global campaigns and initiatives, ...