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Doritos is making a big show of omitting its brand name from a new US ad campaign by Goodby Silverstein & Partners. The idea is that Doritos’ target Gen Z audience doesn’t respond to overt advertising, so instead they are ...

Here’s another tale of derring-do from the Royal Marines, this time rounding up some pesky pirates video game style. Unfortunately you can’t actually play the ad here, you’ll have to follow the link to YouTube (easy enough.) What are our ...

How often does a media owner morph into a successful ad agency? It has been done – Havas started as a news agency – but Vice, not so long ago one of those alternative channels that was going to change ...

Tim Bell, latterly Lord Bell, one of the giant figures of adland in an era where there were many contenders, has died aged 77. Bell founded the Bell Pottinger PR firm with Piers Pottinger – which imploded many years later ...

Was there ever another industry like airlines? They spend billions on so-called improvements like new planes but customers don’t appear to see much of it (unless it’s being shoehorned on to a 737 Max). Most passengers think they’re getting worse. ...

Like many booze brands, Bombay Sapphire gin is struggling to find something it’s allowed to say – like drink this and you’ll be happy. So it’s found itself a purpose – ‘Stir Creativity’ – which is as hard to argue ...

Is Publicis winning the global new business battle? CEO Arthur Sadoun (below) certainly thinks so judging by this memo, “obtained” by Campaign. You mean Arthur didn’t pop it into an email? “Bonjour, I’m sorry to bother you again over the ...

Don’t usually do TV idents but Hyundai – Hyundais seem to be everywhere in the UK, wrapping up the car share market – is sponsoring “forward thinking drama on ITV.” The campaign from Innocean and Havas Media’s Jump seems to ...

GoCompare.com may have a new agency, Droga5, but Welsh tenor Gio Compario lives on, although in D5’s debut campaign he’s acting not singing. Impersonating a real-life GoCompare insurance customer (female) who’s life – and car -are turned upside down by ...