Creative

There goes another one. WPP was built on the back of four big agency acquisitions: JWT, Ogilvy, Y&R and Grey. Now Ogilvy is the only one left standing alone as Grey, which has had a torrid time recently, especially in ...

In the UK we need more doctors and nurses – we seem to be good at building more emergency Nightingale hospitals but not at staffing them – so agency MullenLowe is back in the saddle for the nation’s health service ...

You never know what you’re going to get from Absolut but the global vodka brand is good at sidestepping the restrictions on booze advertising, assisted in no small measure by BBH Singapore. Now it’s looking forward to a Covid-stricken world ...

Chris Garbutt, former global CCO of TBWA Worldwide, and Colin Mitchell, McDonald’s global SVP marketing, are the latest senior leaders to set up shop on their own, backed up by what they call a “talent cloud” of freelancers. With ad ...

It takes a brave agency and client combination to poke fun at the year we’ve had, but Clemenger BBDO and department store Myer succeed brilliantly in this tragically humorous round-up of all the things we’ve missed in 2020. “You got ...

Christmas ads do rather beat you into submission – especially in the UK this year when they mostly seem to feature impromptu feelgood concerts and other performances. Penetrating the gloom of isolation, obviously, but somewhat samey. Australia seems to have ...

Oily skin can spoil even the most promising romance, or so David Madrid would have us believe in this diverting new effort for Unilever’s Pond’s Men. Unilever has upped its budget in the pandemic and it’s good to see the ...

Anomaly has won Hotels.com in ten markets across LatAm, Europe and French Canada. New work will run across platforms including TV and digital and is expected to roll out early next year. The previous agency was Crispin Porter. Hotels.com head ...

Cephas Williams, founder of the Black British Network, has launched an inspirational campaign, which features on Out of Home (OOH) digital screens throughout November and December, publicising his moving Letter to his son Zion written in the wake of the ...