Creative

Global independent Out of Home media agency Talon is rebranding with ‘Think Outside,’ emphasising its increased global scale as the biggest OOH independent media agency worldwide. Approaching its tenth year, Talon works with global brands including Diageo, BBC, and McDonald’s ...

France, the home of haute cuisine and cuisine maman (like wot maman used to make) reportedly has more McDonald’s restaurants than any other European country. A lots of fast food alternatives according to this spot by Buzzman for Burger King, ...

Independent London creative agency Above+Beyond has joined global creative network by The Network. By The Network was founded by former Grey CCO Per Pederson. It has recently added new mebers in Turkey, Chile, Romania, Bulgaria, Israel, Bangladesh and Ecuador. Above+Beyond’s ...

Interpublic’s UM has won one of the UK’s bigger media accounts, Moneysupermarket group whose brands also include Martin Lewis’ MoneySavingExpert and Quidco. UM beat Publicis Groupe’s Starcom, WPP’s Wavemaker and Goodstuff in a pitch managed by Aperto. Former media agency ...

Language learning companies have spawned some funny ads over the years – mistranslations/misunderstandings seem to hit a reliable funny bone, often involving a rampant senorita happening on a bemused if happy tourist, for some unaccountable reason. Now US-based Duolingo has ...

It’s going to be a rough old Christmas for some agencies as they head into a distinctly unpromising 2023 and Publicis.Poke, the somewhat unconvincing amalgam of Publicis with Poke and Arc within Publicis Groupe, has lost its flagship account Morrisons ...

Mother spin-off The Or has raided Droga5 to recruit a new duo as executive creative directors. Dan Morris and Charlene Chandrasekaran replace the agency’s original ECD, Kyle Harman-Turner, who left earlier in the year to work on a climate change ...

System1, which claims to measure the emotional impact of ads and therefore their long term effectiveness, has produced its latest list of Christmas winners (bearing in mind that it’s not actually December yet.) This year 16 ads scored five or ...

Charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) which tries to help suicidal people swept the board at the recent Campaign Big Awards with agency adam&eveDDB. AMV BBDO has added its firepower to the cause with this interesting effort featuring footballer Declan ...