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The extremely busy Annette King – she’s already CEO of Publicis Groupe UK and global chair of BBH – has taken on yet another role, and is now also chair of the Advertising Association. Working with CEO Stephen Woodford and ...

Burger King has been one of the most noteworthy advertisers of recent years, a series of campaigns by David Miami and its offshoots relentlessly winding up McDonald’s (although McD seems to sail serenely on, the odd errant CEO notwithstanding.) David ...

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has come and gone – with surprisingly few mishaps, even the weather was (relatively) kind – but this McDonald’s poster from Leo Burnett is worth a belated mention. Spotted by Ad Contrarian Bob Hoffman, among others. ...

BBH looks like an agency on the way back – it never went away of course, still one of the UK’s biggest, now in the Publicis empire – but it once stood for different: zagging while the others zigged. After ...

Vodafone is a Wimbledon sponsor this year, in fact it’s the “Official Connectivity Partner” of the tennis tournament. Ogilvy UK has put together a campaign to mark the partnership, and has got the ever-popular Emma Raducanu on board, fresh from ...

You don’t come across many of these these days – three minutes of ‘Dirty Talk’ from BBH for sustainable deodorant brand Wild featuring a frisky (stuffed) polar bear and its date, a confused but eco-conscious young woman. Forgivable in the ...

Generations pass, alas, and John Evans, a co-founder of media independent AMS (formerly All Media Services) has died at 75. AMS, and Evans of course, was one of the great survivors, continuing to this day in robust form when many ...

The bunting is going up, the cakes are being baked, and the newspapers’ Platinum Jubilee supplements are ready to go. The Times and The Sunday Times have got a giant pull-out poster, a 20-page supplement, and an ad campaign to ...

Striking the right balance between Classic (traditional) Out of Home and all-conquering digital is one of the keys to sector growth for the medium, World Out of Home Organization President Tom Goddard told 400 delegates at WOO’s Global Congress in ...