Politics

Election ads are funny things but surely Democratic contender and hot favourite for the nomination Hillary Clinton and agency Droga5 can come up with something more inspiring than this. David Droga says it’s been 40 years in the making (it ...

The most eagerly awaited new campaign of 2016 is Wieden+Kennedy’s debut for Bud Light and, as it’s an American election year, it’s going to be ‘The Bud Light Party.’ Client AB InBev has signed up joksters Seth Rogen and Amy ...

It’s easy to get depressed about the state of the world: cruel, controlling and anti-democratic regimes – and that’s just in good old Europe. We won’t go into jihadis and mad North Korean dictators or we’d give up on the ...

Apparently it’s traditional in Australia to celebrate Australia Day by eating barbied lamb on the beach. That’s if you can evade the forest fires and sharks. So farming outfit Meat and Livestock Australia and Sydney agency The Monkeys devised ‘Operation ...

Facebook’s a big global player in everything these days so it’s appropriate, in a way, that it gives us its view of 2015. I assume this film from production company Whirlpool was completed before the recent Paris attacks. It’s easy ...

Michael Grade (now Lord Grade of Yarmouth – the one in the Isle of Wight – in the Conservative cause) is one of the ornaments of the British entertainment industry. A member of the Grade entertainment clan, his first job ...

Coca-Cola wanted to show that it was bringing Christmas joy to Mexicans with this somewhat patronising film showing a bottle top Christmas tree delighting a Coke-snorting community. It’s now been pulled after complaints from all and sundry, from the Mexican ...

It’s quite possible that some of our readers in France were caught up in the appalling events of Friday 13, almost certain that some of them knew someone who had been. On these occasions, of course, you feel relieved if ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell likes years with big events – he reckons, correctly no doubt, that advertisers flood in to such things like lemmings – and they don’t come much bigger than the US presidential election. Nearly $12bn has ...