In case anyone doubted it New Commercial Arts, the London agency founded by adam&eve’s James Murphy and David Golding with Ian Heartfield from BBH and Rob Curran from Wunderman, is now a big player – winning UK price comparison site ...
Read More »Cautious Havas slows decline in last quarter of 2020
Havas, now owned by Vivendi, has reported Q4 2020 and full year figures, coming in towards the bottom of the ad holding companies with full year net revenues down 9.2% at $2.46 billion, compared to pre-pandemic 2019. Full year organic ...
Read More »Dentsumcgarrybowen London brings in two new executive creative directors
Two joint executive creative directors, Sue Higgs from Grey London and Paul Cohen from adam&eveDDB, have joined Dentsumcgarrybowen London to work with CCO Simon Lloyd, who joined the agency in October from adam&eveDDB. The new hirings are part of Dentsu ...
Read More »Iggy Pop steps up the noise in winner from Marshall
You never get fired for hiring Iggy Pop – in ads anyway – and the so-called Godfather of Punk is back with a new campaign for Marshall audio products, ‘Never Stop Listening. A collaboration between director Kevin Castanheira, Dog Eat ...
Read More »WPP appoints new global production supremo Dave Rolfe
WPP has lured Dave Rolfe (below) from Facebook to be its new global head of production. He will take the same role at WPP’s specialist production agency Hogarth. The appointment follows that of Rob Reilly from McCann Worldgroup as global ...
Read More »Do we really need another hectoring from the Government – this time on middle class drug use?
Headlines are funny things. Campaign has one today: Government looks to adland to reduce cocaine use. Now we know that adland has some enthusiastic snorters but surely Boris and co. have more pressing issues on their mind than this? What ...
Read More »Sooner collective charts upbeat route out of UK lockdown
A group of adland’s finest including Sir Nigel Bogle and Robert Campbell are – what’s the word, curating? – a social media campaign #LetsGetThereSooner inviting people to say what they’re looking forward to post-lockdown. And reminding them, as you do, ...
Read More »Pret A Manger searches for global creative agency partner
Here’s an interesting challenge for a creative agency as we tiptoe out of lockdown: Pret A Manger is looking for such an agency to “support its ongoing transformation programme.” Pret, which operates from mainly city centre sites catering to office ...
Read More »No-judgement vegan brand LikeMeat takes a ‘plant curious’ approach in new campaign by 72andSunny Amsterdam
LikeMeat, the plant-based “alt-meat” brand, has launched its first ad campaign, which aims to persuade people to buy the product because it’s tastes good, never mind that it’s saving the planet. The idea is not to get too worthy on ...
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