Creative

Ads of the Year Andy Lockley – Havas London, Creative Partner My pick: Drama vs Reality – ITV I’m a huge admirer of the work Uncommon does with ITV. A media brand is a real test of the creative swag ...

This darkly comic tale takes life on Zoom to its logical conclusion, leaving one poor man stuck inside that one last call, condemned to experience Christmas from deep inside his laptop. Wonderhood Studios’ Christmas film is brilliantly done, with two ...

The UK Advertising Association with campaigning group 40 over Forty has released its list of seasoned movers and shakers after totting up 6,000 votes. The aim being to combat ageisn in ad/media/marketing land in the interest of more inclusion. Here ...

WPP is back on the acquisition trail, buying a majority stake in design firm Made Thought to form a new entity The New Standard, part of its AKQA empire (AKQA is now the lead company in another relative newbie within ...

Two interesting creative reviews have closed: adam&eveDDB has won the global brief for baking brand Dr Oetker, pitching with Omnicom siblings DDB Dusseldorf and PR agency Fleishman Hillard. Design Bridge has also been appointed. A&E will lead creative in 40 ...

It’s been an impressive year for the UK ad industry with a number of standout pieces of work. Ads of the year. For me, however, the best campaign not just from this year but probably the past five years is ...

The BBC, which is permanently under fire from the government (and half of Twitter), has responded to its critics with a subtly entertaining film that captures the real moods of a family Christmas, while subtly but very powerfully demonstrating just ...

Christmas comes early for adfolk. We gorge ourselves on the first Christmas commercials in early November and go back for seconds soon afterwards. And we still find space for the sherry trifle that then follows in the form of the ...

Newly-minted Accenture Interactive CEO (and creative chairman, naturally) David Droga has put his stamp on the organisation by luring back Neil Heymann from Publicis Groupe’s New York creative collective Le Truc. Heymann who was CCO of Droga5, will become Accenture ...