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Will the Euro football championship cheer up the Brits as we look forward to a summer of freedom from Covid restrictions? Might not get one of course as already the serried ranks of doomsters are warning about the Indian variant ...

D&AD has awarded three Black Pencils (its top award) this year, all of which went to campaigns with a cause. AMV BBDO’s “Womb Stories” raised awareness of women’s experiences; McCann New York’s “True Name” is a collaboration with Mastercard to ...

ITV is back, trying to tempt kids to eat their veggies by declaring war on them. From adam&eveDDB. While MullenLowe France is plugging July’s Olympics for France TV Sport, still on the runway although it’s stuttering a bit. Using Japanese ...

David Jones’ brand tech group You & Mr Jones has announced a new technology partner – important, presumably, in such an organisation – US-based CTO Will Luttrell plus net revenue growth of 34.3% in Q1 2021. Luttrell (left) was the ...

Betting firm Ladbrokes is going big on the Euros – well it would, wouldn’t it? – in a whopper campaign from former adam&eveDDB partner Jon Forsyth’s new agency Neverland, featuring just about every drummer on the planet. Or those who ...

Bloody Good Period is a charity on a mission to end period shame, and this ad by Mother joyously exposes the monthly indignities and inconveniences that are all-too familiar to half the world’s population. Ce Ce Peniston’s hit song “Finally” ...

Is the worst over for the ad holding companies? Their obituary is written regularly (almost daily in the early stages of the pandemic) but both WPP and Interpublic have seen their shares hit year-highs recently, a sign that investors are ...

72andSunny Amsterdam has hired Ben Armistead as its new executive strategy director. Armistead (left) was latterly W+K’s global head of effectiveness. He left last year. Armistead joins 72andSunny’s leadership team of Lauren Portelli (managing director), Stephanie Oakley (director of production), ...

There are so many online “platforms” out there that, sooner or later, they’re going to need to take to branding to differentiate themselves. For a while some at least, like TikTok currently, are such a phenomenon that there’s no need. ...