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The result of Coca-Cola’s massive creative and media review (Coke spent over £3bn pre-lockdown, down from its previous levels) is reportedly imminent. We’d forgotten all about it as it began, incredibly, in January 2021 and seems to have morphed from ...

TK Maxx is where you pick up designer brands for less (wandered into one in London’s well-heeled financial district once, just the place to pick up a tiara) and agency Wieden+Kennedy is going down the well-trodden route of the nervous ...

It’s Christmas 2021, and all that stuff about helping other people seems to have gone out the window – for Peloton at least. In a new festive ad by adam&eveNY, Scrooge doesn’t find the Christmas spirit in helping his fellow ...

Nice of Mark Zuckerberg to share this one personally… Facebook is now Meta as it ventures into the metaverse – where you can interact digitally (or should that be hang out?) Droga5 is on the case with Facebook’s in-house creativos ...

Will there be any Christmas ads still around at Christmas? Joining this week’s early November rush we have Asda and Vodafone. Asda is going the time-honoured Magic and Sparkle route with ‘Asda on Ice’ from Havas, referencing dear old Torvill ...

Jo Wallace is the director of Sugar Studios in Greenwich, London. Wallace, formerly of MDM Props Ltd, has created a space that is now setting its sights on building its advertising and production clientele on the back of its success ...

There’s been an early rush on Christmas ads this week — perhaps because Black Friday won’t add up to much (few retailers can afford to discount too heavily), and they all want us to shop early to even out the ...

Publicis Media is filling its Christmas stocking early this year, Zenith in the UK winning Lloyds Banking Group from WPP’s MediaCom in a statutory review, ending a 12-year relationship with WPP. Earlier in the week Zenith won ZPG websites Confused.com, ...

Sports Direct is a famously cheap and not-very-cheerful retail experience, but this Christmas ad totally reverses that perception. The retailer has shelled out proper money for sports stars including Jack Grealish, Emma Raducanu, Mason Mount and Jessica Ennis in this ...