Creative

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital motors on happily through the pandemic, reporting Q3 2020 revenue of £86.4m (up 13% on the same period of last year) and gross profit of £75.3m (up 23%.) All this without the benefit of BMW’s ...

In the absence of Christmas parties, and with limited gatherings looking likely on Christmas Day itself, Marks & Spencer has gone for the “eat, drink and be merry” message this year, with some charity and celebs thrown in for good ...

The traditional Remembrance Day parade is closed to the public this year, but Westminster City Council and TMW Unlimited have created the chance for a collective moment, with a stirring film to celebrate the centenary of the burial of the ...

Here’s one well-known advertising name who has chosen not to start up a new model agency. Instead, Jonathan Burley is taking on the similarly challenging task of boosting an existing group to a new level by joining Miroma as CCO. ...

Christmas ads in the UK used to be an annual battle between adam&eveDDB for John Lewis and AMV BBDO for Sainsbury’s. Back in 2015 AMV, which spent a year working on these things, tied up with children’s author Judith Kerr ...

MSQ’s customer acquisition and engagement agency Stack has promoted Nicola Nimmo (below) to managing director. Previously client services director, Nimmo’s responsibilities will include overseeing the day-to-day running of Stack and driving growth. This follows a number of moves made by ...

Walkers Crisps mostly delighted us last Christmas with the inimitable Mariah Carey courtesy of AMV BBDO. This year, having departed AMV, it’s a more modest “social first” effort (as is Christmas in the UK) from Elvis, featuring comedian and YouTuber ...

Over the years there’ve been lots of ads for tyres, some of them quite famous like AMV and Tony Kaye’s epic for Dunlop. None of them (or not many anyway) actually seem to show tyres. When you think of Michelin, ...

Better tread carefully here; Asda’s Sunny is back (Sunny somewhat divides opinion according to the comments we received after his last effort) courtesy of AMV BBDO presumably. Offering an ‘Asda Price Christmas’ amid festooning his house with those annoying garish ...