I am sometimes asked by friends if I will talk to their children about a job in advertising. I assume this is because they do not want to be doctors, teachers, lawyers or go into the City, and they think ...
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We had a slew of very good ads in October (see below, slew doesn’t sound very nice but it’s fine) and here’s another campaign to kick things off in November, trendy sustainable shoe company Allbirds from Anomaly LA. Allbirds are ...
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It’s interesting that at a time when creative agencies are fighting for their very existence against the data hordes, October saw a rich crop of ads – all of them, in some way, demonstrating the presence of that rare element: ...
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Despite (or perhaps because of) the Brexit house price crash, online estate agents seem to be a booming industry, and one that invests a decent amount in advertising too. Mother has won Yopa, the eighth largest UK estate agent brand, ...
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I wonder if new WPP CEO Mark Read is wise to offer a running commentary on the embattled group’s fortunes? He’s at it today in Campaign, musing on merging agencies and WPP’s travails in North America. When he took the ...
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Big issues are coming thick and fast today – news reporting courtesy of the New York Times and harassment from timeTo already. Now it’s the small matter of saving the world from our own depredations from the WWF (formerly World ...
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TimeTo is set on removing harassment from the ad business, in this case a “handsy” client keen to get to get her (please note) mitts on a young account handler in a campaign using donated time and space from Lucky ...
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Not sure we can take a Christmas ad this early in the season – it’s still October – but Shop Direct’s Very.co.uk is getting its retaliation in first with another winsome piece of animation from St Luke’s and Against All ...
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President Trump is no fan of the established US media (apart from Fox News), especially the likes of the New York Times which he blames for “fake news,” in a typically Trumpian inversion. Doubt that he’ll be approaching Droga5, the ...
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