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Enid Blyton’s Famous Five are back on duty for Great Western Railway and adam&eveDDB, this time with a stage villain to pursue all over the west country. He’s in a taxi, they’re on the train – making the point that ...

October is breast cancer awareness month, which often inspires some memorable work to promote the cause. Mortierbrigade in Belgium has put adolescent girls in the spotlight, with a film featuring eight teenage girls, reflecting the one in eight women who ...

You don’t see many of these these days, an extended comedy sketch doubling as advertising, featuring a vicar at an unusual funeral. You expect Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (were they still us) to jump out of the bushes any ...

Publicis Groupe’s new UK country manager Annette King, who left WPP’s Ogilvy Group last year, has announced her new management team and it’s a case of “here come the girls.” Former colleague OgilvyOne CEO Jo Coombs, is COO, OMD Worldwide’s ...

Opel/Vauxhall has picked McCann to handle its European ad account from a new base in Frankfurt. Opel/Vauxhall is now owned by Peugeot and Citroen owner PSA which bought it from General Motors in 2017. McCann pitched against German incumbent Scholz ...

September was pretty good for new ads, first up is WCRS (having a stellar year) for charity Women’s Aid, the latest in a striking campaign. Literally in this clever spin on cinema film classification. ? French agencies appear to have ...

Renault is moving to a bespoke agency consisting of long-term creative partner Publicis and Omnicom’s OMD, brand and marketing head Bastien Schupp has told The Drum. Schupp says he considered bringing the whole caboodle in-house but decided against because of ...

We’ve noted the way media agencies seem to have ridden out the 2016 US ANA report into undisclosed media rebates and the like, based on their holding company owners’ published results anyway. But now the Wall Street Journal reports that ...

Three somehow seems more fun than other phone networks. It has the advantage that Kevin Bacon is elsewhere -EE – and doesn’t have to try to make another famous actor loveable, as Vodafone does with Martin Freeman. Wieden+Kennedy is in ...