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Paramount is launching its streaming service Paramount+ in the UK and has picked New Commercial Arts to handle the launch. NCA beat Who Wot Why, VCCP and The Brooklyn Brothers inj a pitch handled by AAR. Paramount+ launches in the ...

Big brand campaigns were in short supply at D&AD’s virtual (really?) awards this year. One of the two Black Pencils went to Samsung’s iTest, which allows Apple loyalists to test out a Samsung Galaxy on their own iPhones – but ...

Paul Hutchison, who has been Wavemaker’s UK CEO for the last four years – and been at the agency for 12 years – is moving to Australia to take up a new role outside WPP. Wavemaker, fresh from winning Amazon’s ...

Cadbury is making the ads for its new Twirl Caramel hard to find, claiming it’s to #ControlTwirlHype. The ads are positioned in out-of-the-way places and carry the line, “So limited we’re asking you to keep it to yourself.” Created by ...

A new outdoor innovation by Engine Creative re-thinks the standard missing person poster and brings the traditionally static images to life, using AI to make the faces appear to move their eyes, smile and make facial expressions. A QR code ...

Ireland seems more and more like a foreign country these days, sitting comfortably in the European Union, so opening an office there has become an appealing strategic move. BBH has gone ahead in Dublin with Tesco as its founding client ...

Brands have been banging on about purpose for the last couple of years. Now is the time for them to put their money where their mouth is. The cost of living crisis means that pretty much everyone is tightening their ...

Sometimes stating the bleedin’ obvious is unequivocally the right thing to do and Tesco chief customer officer and Advertising Association president Alessandra Bellini (below) did just that at the Media 360 conference, saying: “salaries in the industry (have lagged) inflation ...

The World Economic Forum’s annual gathering at Davos is a lot more low-key this year. No Biden, Johnson, Macron or any big world leaders, and a-listers like Angelina Jolie, who have made appearances in the past, are staying away too. ...