Creative

In times of crisis as we are seeing with the Covid-19 pandemic, brands are wondering how to best invest their marketing efforts and which decisions will positively or negatively affect their business and reputations. Some things go without saying, like ...

BMW’s Mini is reportedly looking for an agency to handle a new global campaign, another sign of the extraordinary growth of a brand once all but forgotten by the Brits (who invented it.) Mind you, today’s “Minis” are the size ...

We’re re-running some older faves as striking new campaigns are rather thin on the ground and here’s an oldie from 1976, Honey Monster from the great Boase Massimi Pollitt, probably the best TV agency under creative director John Webster. But ...

Are agencies doing their bit in the Covid-19 crisis? WPP CEO Mark Read (below) thinks they are. Writing this week he said: “At WPP, we are working with international health authorities to promote effective handwashing, and we have offered our ...

The coronavirus lockdown seems to have sparked an indoor, online fitness boom, with YouTube star Joe Wicks (AKA “The Body Coach”) becoming the nation’s instant hero thanks to his daily 9am family workouts. Now Wicks, among other fitness gurus, has ...

Bit of a shortage of noteworthy new campaigns (for some reason) so we thought we’d pick a few from the past to entertain and, maybe, inform. Would arguably be a bit too easy to go straight to the greatest works ...

It’s an il wind, as they say… S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been opining on Sky News that the outbreak of what he somewhat contentiously called “the Chinese virus” in a City AM report (wouldn’t be SMS if he ...

Guinness is never one to let a topical opportunity – however grim – slip and it scored a social media success with this image of a stay-at-home Guinness. Only it wasn’t “official” Guinness at all, it’s the creation of freelance ...

More creativity in the land of Coronavirus, St Luke’s top creatives Richard Denney and Al Young have created a new logo to be shared on social media, Stay Home Now (SHN) which is simply the existing NHS (National Health Service) ...