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If it weren’t for Wieden + Kennedy Portland’s extremely classy ad starring South Korean artist and rapper MLMA, this collaboration between KFC and Crocs would seem like a new low in attention-grabbing stunts. As it stands, it’s a compelling 60 ...

TikTok is now one of the UK’s most downloaded apps, according to Digital 2020: The United Kingdom, a report released today by social creative agency We Are Social and social media management company Hootsuite. The short-form video platform, which didn’t ...

When does purpose in advertising become preachiness? These days P&G is following long-time rival Unilever down the purpose route, most notably with Gillette which seems to be trying to redefine what men are all about – apart from beings who ...

As we’ve noted before, Sir Martin Sorrell used to say that Omnicom was good at operations but had no strategy, although SMS has been kinder since he quit WPP for S4Capital. No strategy seems to be paying off as the ...

S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is 75 on Friday (St Valentine’s Day – happy birthday Martin) but advancing years don’t seem to have mellowed him. In an Ad age podcast he refers to the way all the holding companies, especially his ...

Digital dystopia is a recurring theme in many ads these days, unless you’re a social media purveyor of course. And they don’t care, they’re coinng it. Anyway, we never expected to find DD in the bathroom but that’s where London ...

Nobody really knows how continental travel is going to change for Brits post Brexit but the Eurostar train service still has a lot going going for it, with more people becoming more disenchanted with air travel in particular – emissions, ...

Great things were expected from former Channel 4 boss David Abraham’s Wonderhood Studios when it launched about a year ago but since then not much has emerged, although Wonderhood has been busy on the programme-making front. But now the agency ...

So are prime minister Boris Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings (Dom as his friends call him, assuming he has any) a danger to democracy? Well they might be if you think media access to our elected leaders is ...