Creative

Christmas comes early for adfolk. We gorge ourselves on the first Christmas commercials in early November and go back for seconds soon afterwards. And we still find space for the sherry trifle that then follows in the form of the ...

Newly-minted Accenture Interactive CEO (and creative chairman, naturally) David Droga has put his stamp on the organisation by luring back Neil Heymann from Publicis Groupe’s New York creative collective Le Truc. Heymann who was CCO of Droga5, will become Accenture ...

Ads of the Year. Firstly, this one from Guinness would get my vote. It’s such a simple concept my art director soul soars – I like the ‘faces in things’ IG account – once you see it, you start seeing ...

The reindeer are crowded round a phone box trying to get Santa to pick up, but he’s busy causing havoc in PicWicToys. Dressed in red-and-white leather, sporting tattoos, and displaying a fiercely competitive streak, Santa is racing around the aisles, ...

IKEA, like Burger King, hasn’t forgotten that ads can be fun – if you’re prepared to take a risk or three. It’s renting out tiny homes in Tokyo (as far as we can see) to show off its wares in ...

Wonderhood Studios is becoming a UK agency to conjure with and this is its first work for Alzheimer’s Research UK (as opposed to Alzheimer’s Society, now with New Commercial Arts): unusually with a positive message. Depicting the wonders of the ...

WPP has emerged top in WARC’s award-based agency rankings for 2021 with Ogilvy most creative network and its offshoot David Miami’s client Burger King top brand. Ogilvy, now headed by Andy Main, displaced Omnicom’s BBDO Burger King’s ‘Moldy Whopper’ campaign ...

Transport for London has pulled this road safety ad from VCCP after, yes, a Twitter “storm,” resulting in 70-odd complaints so far. From cycling supporters mainly it seems, who object to be being seen as (unintended) menaces on the road, ...

Ads of the Year. Trying to remember a good, recent ad is like trying to remember a joke. So I had to scroll through my WhatsApp groups to find the ads that my non-advertising friends shared with me, along with ...