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Well how often do you see some lonely character going for meal on his own? Advertisers learned long ago that showing individuals doing individual things invited disaster, that’s why whenever you see a woman in a kitchen she’s always has ...

And quite right too, you can’t have brazen hussies like this causing havoc in the workplace with their ice lolly eating habits. The useful advice comes from the Association of Finnish Lawyers and it was created (with some relish clearly) ...

A few eyebrows shot into the stratosphere when Rupert Murdoch biographer and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff took the editorial helm at Adweek a year ago and now Mike is on his way after a turbulent year. First he shifted ...

Maybe a bit harsh (diaper ads really only do it for you if you’re in the market) but readers of consumer blog The Consumerist have voted this Saatchi & Saatchi New York ad for Procter & Gamble’s Luvs the ‘worst ...

One of the more interesting agency transformations of recent times is going on at DDB London, the UK outpost of one of the great creative agency networks and, before that, the legendary UK hotshop Boase Massimi Pollitt. BMP’s Stanley Pollitt ...

World rugby’s governing body the International Rugby board rules with an iron hand, far more so than football bodies FIFA and UEFA, but the success of the Rugby World Cup (in TV viewing terms if not necessarily the quality of ...

Here are some of the first offerings from Wieden+Kennedy Portland for Procter & Gamble’s iconic Ivory Soap and the relaunch campaign does what it says on the tin – keeps it ‘pure, clean and simple.’ It’s certainly not the engaging ...

It’s nice that there’s an American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) award for clever thinking in memory of the late Jay Chiat and, for the first time, it’s been shared. Lowe SSP3 in Bogota, Columbia, wins for its celebrated ‘Operation ...

Marc Modesto, the senior DraftFCB manager whose enforced departure from the agency seems to have triggered the disastrous loss of the $1bn SC Johnson account for the Interpublic-owned agency, has resurfaced as president of the Chicago office of Pittsburgh-based agency ...