If you’re an avid news consumer (most of us are these days, however trepidatiously) you might have noticed the dreaded climate change inching up the news agenda as a little Covid light emerges at the end of the tunnel. Very ...
Read More »Thirty seconds of Chris Whitty is more than enough
In his own lugubrious ‘Dr Death’ way UK chief medical adviser Chris Whitty is a capable enough Downing Street press conference performer. He doesn’t flannel away like Boris anyway. But I don’t know who thought this Covid-19 thirty seconds was ...
Read More »AMV BBDO goes into battle for Macmillan Cancer Support in a Covid-dominated world
Macmillan Cancer Support is going into battle – sort of – in a new campaign from AMV BBDO, positioning the charity as “compassionate warrior” prepared to do “whatever it takes.” As Britain’s under-resourced and (arguably) over-managed NHS struggles with the ...
Read More »CIA rebrands to be more diverse – designer is a secret
America’s CIA intelligence agency has rebranded and, as with all such “improvements” to venerable institutions, controversy has sparked. Here are the old and new versions (guess which one is which.) Creative Bloq There’s already a mystery over who designed it, ...
Read More »The Monkeys goes bats for Australia’s BCF
BCF (Boating Camping and Fishing online store) in Australia don’t shirk trouble in their ads and the latest – from Accenture-owned The Monkeys – has caused a predictable storm as it shows one of the happy campers, holidaying in Australia ...
Read More »P&G ‘leads with love’ in bold charter for 2021
Procter & Gamble has revealed its determination to ‘Lead with Love’ in 2021, 2,021 “acts of good” throughout the year for Covid-related causes. The campaign is spearheaded by a film proposing love as one of eight emotions displayed by babies. ...
Read More »WPP sets out ambitious plans as it emerges in one piece from bad old 2020
WPP is updating investors and analysts today but the menu gives a pretty clear idea of CEO Mark Read’s plans and expectations. Under Strategic Goals we have: *Return core Communications business to sustainable growth. *Expand further into high-growth areas of ...
Read More »Sea Shepherd fishes for an end to industrial fishing
Feeling uneasy about tucking into that big fish on Christmas Eve? Some might be and marine wildlife conservation organisation Sea Shepherd is reminding that 90% of the world’s fish have disappeared thanks to industrial scale fishing along with whales, dolphins ...
Read More »Intermarché tackles big one with Covid-19 Christmas tale
French supermarket chain Intermarché is good at putting itself on the right side of the argument – sustainability, selling less-than-perfect-looking vegetable etc – and this Christmas it’s tackling the big one – Covid 19 – with agency Romance. A short ...
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