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Stories have been shared and enjoyed in theatres, museums and schools around the country this week for National Storytelling Week. The event serves to remind people how integral stories are to the human experience. But in the ad world, where ...

We don’t often print press releases in full but this one from WPP won’t take long: WPP sells stake in Richard Attias & Associates WPP announces that, in line with its stated objective of simplifying its offer and focusing on ...

This safe drinking campaign makes a refreshing change. Moderation messages usually lurk unconvincingly in the small print — “drink responsibly” or “stop when the fun stops” — but this Guinness ad by AMV BBDO flat out suggests we drink water ...

OK, here’s a potential rival for Toyota’s Toni Harris and other Super Bowl contenders, Amazon’s Alexa taking the piss out of herself – again. Last year’s effort featured a baffled Jeff Bezos and this year it’s Harrison Ford (among others) ...

Toni Harris dreams of being the first woman NFL player and appears to be well on the way, with scholarship offers despite being just five and half feet tall. But she’s surmounted many things in her young life: adoption and ...

Advertising has a problem – 69 per cent of the British public don’t trust it – as the Advertising Association admitted at its LEAD 2019 event. Unilever’s Keith Weed, Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson, and the BBC’s Evan Davis ...

Website creator Squarespace isn’t in the Super Bowl but it’s invested heavily in this contemporaneous ad with Idris Elba and British comedian Lolly Adefope, directed by Spike Jonze. Elba sends himself up nicely and it makes the point that Squarespace ...

One of tennis star Naomi Osaka’s sponsors, Nissin, has come under fierce criticism after it released an advertisement featuring a cartoon representation of Osaka, who is ethnically half-Haitian and half-Japanese, with pale skin and wavy brown hair. The sponsor has ...

Walmart has gone to Publicis for all things marketing – or “transformation” as we say these days – and here’s its big Super Bowl effort, to run before the kick-off on Sunday (when the audience is still, presumably, awake.) Walmart ...