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What do you miss most in lockdown? For lots of people it’s McDonald’s, judging by the enormous drive-in queues in the UK. Restaurants and cafes are reopening in France so DDB is celebrating the occasion in suitably faux-epic style. More ...

Engine’s “Get Money Calm” campaign gets better every time. In this fourth instalment, an enormous bull shows us how to keep cool in challenging times. A china shop, a chaotic kids’ party, a storm at sea or an asteroid crashing ...

BBH looks to have completed its new management line-up in London with the elevation of Karen Martin (below) to CEO from managing director and Simon Gregory and Will Lion to joint CSOs. Polly McMorrow has been promoted to MD. They ...

Football’s back with us in the UK, albeit behind closed doors. Saw some of Manchester City and Arsenal last night and it was OK, the “fake” crowd noise didn’t intrude and there seemed to be fewer fouls and other interruptions ...

With so much polarisation and animosity around trans issues at the moment, it’s a brave marketer that makes a stand in this area. But Diesel and Publicis Italy have done a fine job of telling the story of Francesca, whose ...

WPP has announced a series of measures in response to Black Lives Matter and the ‘Call for Change’ from 1200 Black advertising professionals (looks like ‘black’ has to carry a capital letter now.) Among the measures are a fundamental review ...

D&AD, which normally takes place in May, has been a bit of a damp squib this year. Not just because of the pandemic, or the cost-cutting exit of CEO Patrick Burgoyne, but because the winners are being announced in dribs ...

Are electric scooters going to part of the new normal? They’re already here of course, to some people’s disquiet (although they can hardly be more dangerous than some of the speedster cyclists whizzing along the world’s pedestrian spaces.) Mongoose, once ...

Nobody yet really knows what the impact of Covid-19 will be on advertising, marketing and media (or, indeed, anything else) but it is certain to be sharp and painful. The UK’s Advertising Association, which these days does a pretty good ...