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Nike ads have had more than their fair share of epic moments over the years. now, with LeBron James in the chair via agency Wieden+Kennedy, it’s advising us that “you’re never too far down” in moments of crisis – to ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital is still on the takeover trail (or ‘merger” as it prefers to say) amid the crisis, with the addition of LATAM data and analytics consultancy Digodat. In a somewhat jumpy M&A market S4 reminds us ...

Ads are a touch restricted at the moment (you may have noticed) but Skoda and agency Optimist have succeeded in making the best of it with three new films – ‘discover new possibilities.’ Here’s director Steffen Haars. Producer is Halal. ...

When you’re producing zillions of bits a content a day the odd howler is going to slip through but this Instagram effort from Volkswagen is a peach. Racist or what? So we’ve had VW board members frantically grovelling in public ...

Every so often there’s a rush of agency start-ups, it’s hard to say exactly why they happen as they do but it’s a pretty fair bet that many we’ll be seeing soon will occur because a lot of creative agency ...

Tony Blair’s spinmeister Alastair Campbell is supposed to have said that if a poliicial story lasted more than a week then the subject of it is probably toast (Campbell denied this in a blog post, saying it depended on circumstances ...

The BBC has cemented its place as a national treasure during the Covid-19 crisis, and this film does a good job of underpinning that status without resorting to Zoom, thank goodness. It’s celebrating the “Great British Singalong,” which the BBC ...

Stella Artois’ ‘Reassuring Expensive’ campaign by Lowe Howard-Spink kept the brand at the top of the UK tree long after it started to be made in the UK (as opposed to Belgium) and wasn’t that good any more. The campaign, ...

What a difference a quarter makes. While 2019 remained gloomy for the high street, some positives still reared their heads – there were record Black Friday sales and consumer sentiment improved. Then in one fell swoop, nearly all marketing plans ...