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It is, of course, St Valentine’s Day on Friday (you’d forgotten, obviously) when, among other things, the card population rises. Two creatives from The Gate London, Beth Grace and Hannah Cunningham, have spotted a dearth of LGBTQA+ offerings on the ...

This first big brand campaign for Uber Eats from Mother is a refreshing, uncomplicated — but strategically clever — look at the life of a courier who delivers a dose of positivity with every meal. Comedian Guz Khan is the ...

The Oscars aren’t quite the showcase for commercial creativity that you might expect, given how much adland loves Hollywood, but as it’s the morning after the night before, here are a couple of good ones created specially to run during ...

OK, so the Super Bowl fever is finally subsiding. The best news is that my favorite ad, “Loretta,” from Google has been ranked amongst the top three of the 62 spots that ran throughout the game. And, by the way, ...

Waitrose (or Waitrose & Partners as we’re now supposed to call it) has taken a leaf out of M&S’s old food book (and the Wieden+Kennedy manual) with what we used to call food porn, coupled with some nice free range ...

Does M&S have the faintest clue what it’s doing? Apparently it sells lots of jeans and stuff so it’s charged clothing agency Odd with flogging a few more by making its rather humdrum brand more hip and exciting. Seems sensible ...

Two survivors of the golden age of British advertising are launching a new creative agency. Copywriter Adrian Holmes, former CCO of Lowe Worldwide, and art director John O’Driscoll, an alumnus of the great CDP and then an award-winning commercials director, ...

Publicis Groupe may be navigating problems but one of the jewels in its crown is Publicis Italia, not least for its work on Heineken. Here it is challenging stereotypes, not going all LGBT (some of it might be) but riffing ...

One of the biggest events in the advertising world took place on Sunday – The Super Bowl. As ever, competition for space, coverage and making an impact was fierce amongst brands as they looked to capture the hearts and minds ...