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UK Advertisers and adland seem to have (mostly) held their hands up this year and admitted that Christmas is a bit of an ordeal. But best to get on with it, see it through and, of course, buy their products. ...

This is quite sweet from BBH, nice colourful hoodies (ZipZap circus performers apparently) squeezing themselves into improbable shapes and spaces to plug KFC’s Krushems drinks. With an appropriately soupy tune, the Youngbloods (or a copy) from Easy Rider it seems. ...

Here’s an interesting one: Ad Age reports that WPP has ‘edged out’ Omnicom in what seems to have been a two-horse race for Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (‘Hway-hay’ is what you say apparently). Huawei is a global business-to-business supplier (worth ...

WPP, proud co-owner of Team Detroit with Ford (and Blue Hive outside the US for other bits of Ford) has set up a new agency called Hudson Rouge (well it’s based in New York) for Lincoln, Ford’s struggling luxury brand. ...

Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper. Rupert says: “From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle ...

There’s a grave danger that the witch-hunt against global brands who fail to pay their “fair share” of UK corporation tax will boomerang on the political class that has instigated it. Google, Amazon and Starbucks have been chief whipping boys ...

KesselKramer is an agency in Los Angeles, London and Amsterdam whose motto is ‘advertising for people who don’t like advertising.’ Such persons (can there really be any?) may be amused by this shop in East London (England) that turns into ...

I’m deeply indebted to the international Epica creative advertising awards – on which I served as a juror – for giving me nightmares. Every year, the awards betray certain cultural themes – performing dogs, hyper-animated babies, whatever – that have ...