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With Lucky generals you nearly always get an idea (most of which work) and its debut for The Gym Group has what might be a winner in ‘gymtimidation’ (bit of a mouthful obviously.) The premise being that going to the ...

The Qatar World Cup is almost upon us – another disaster waiting to happen surely – and official beer Budweiser is out of the blocks with Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr and Raheem Sterling entering the arena via the tunnel. All ...

Morrisons, recently displaced as the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket group by Aldi, is reviewing its creative account at Publicis.Poke (an amalgam of Publicis with its digital agency.) Morrisons is now owned by US private equity group Clayton, Dubilier & Rice which ...

The&Partnership doesn’t always get the credit it deserves for trying to up its creative game. The agency is best-known perhaps for its formidable client retention abilities – it recently held on to British Gas creative (which it began handling at ...

Publicis machinations used to be quite good fun when the talk was all of who would eventually succeed CEO Maurice Levy, with various contenders coming and going. Like much else in adland it’s mostly settled down since (disappointing as that ...

The trend for big ad holding companies to hire client-specific creatives continues with Guillermo Vega, former CCO of Saatchi & Saatchi in London and before that senior at 72andSunny and Wieden+kennedy, as Ogilvy’s global creative lead on Coca-Cola, now ensconced ...

Under Armour has run some striking campaigns in the past – most notably through Droga5 New York – but seems to be going it alone with this latest effort, inverting the over-familiar sports mantra encouraging people to be like superstars, ...

Dentsu is moving quickly to put its new integrated leadership structure in place: as global CEO Wendy Clark moves on, Simon Lloyd, the chief creative officer of Dentsu Creative UK, is leaving the agency after two years to make room ...

Apple is beginning the annual task of getting us to part with our money for the latest iPhone (14), which, as always, is bigger, better (maybe) and does lots of things you’re never likely to want to do. In the ...