Politics

Dentsu has emerged at the top of the holding company leader board in 2016 (WPP has still to report) with organic growth of five per cent (4.5 per cent in Japan where it still does about half its business). Revenue ...

We know it already, 2017’s going to be the year of ‘political’ ads from brands (thanks Donald) and here’s a biggie: star-studded ‘Equality’ from Nike by Wieden+Kennedy which aired at the Grammys on Sunday. Soundtrack is Sam Cook’s ‘Change is ...

Home, a short film about the refugee crisis starring Jack O’Connell and Holliday Grainger, has won the UK’s BAFTA award (the UK Oscars) for Best Short Film. Home was co-produced by Black Sheep Studios, BBH’s in-house production unit, with Somesuch ...

US brands including Levi’s, Google, Apple and Facebook have found themselves in the highly unusual position of defending the constitution against the policies of their country’s president. Around a hundred companies have opposed Trump’s travel ban which they argue not ...

A while ago JWT produced a report a report saying that people were swayed by brands in their political choices. We thought this was a bit over the top but that’s before we’d seen some Super Bowl ads. Budweiser has ...

There’s been a predictable furore in America over the new Budweiser Super Bowl spot from Anomaly, hymning intrepid immigrant Adolphus Busch and some of the obstacles he had to overcome, like prejudice. This seems to fly in the face of ...

Speaking at the Advertising Association’s LEAP Summit new culture secretary Karen Bradley says the Government is still looking hard at banning gambling ads on TV before the so-called 9pm ‘watershed,’ when you can air controversial stuff as the kids are ...

Indie London agency Krow bravely took on Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party as a client recently and here’s its first effort, hymning the glorious National Health Service and its better prospects under Corbyn/Labour than the Tory’s Jeremy Hunt (or should that ...

Brexit? What Brexit? The latest IPA Bellwether report into marketers’ spending plans (300 of them) in Q4 2016 shows that 12.9 per cent actually increased budgets despite widespread fears/predictions that the vote to leave the EU and, in all likelihood ...