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It’s a tough job being a gal these days so Unilver’s Dove and Ogilvy Brazil have produced an online film ‘Real Beauty Sketches’ that compares how women see themselves and how others see them – through the agency of FBI-trained ...

Missed this one first time round; it’s a campaign for Fiat (aka Chrysler) from Wieden+Kennedy Portland explaining the quirky, if somewhat unreliable, Italian motor manufacturer’s appeal to and synergy with the Chinese. W+K Portland certainly can’t be accused of ducking ...

Everybody wastes their time trying to find a new spin on creative or, at the other extreme, trying to find oil in the Arctic. Actually the dosh is in online dating companies. These days you’re not allowed to do it, ...

Did you ever wonder what all those WPP media agencies (Mindshare, MediaCom, MEC, Maxus and no doubt many others still to be invented) actually do, when GroupM is supposed to be running the roost? Well one thing they do is ...

There are two companies you may not expect to find in the UK’s Top 20 agencies: production specialist TAG (now working with Wieden+Kennedy London on Tesco) and Gratterpalm, hailing from Leeds. Gratterpalm is living testimony to the fact that a ...

In the UK Mad Men has returned to Sky Atlantic, infuriatingly for those of us who aren’t Sky subscribers. Wieden+Kennedy London managing director Neil Christie (left) analyses the advertising bits – there are still some – in the new episodes ...

Whoever said advertising was a young person’s business? The conventional wisdom is that at 40, most ad executives would be advised to investigate a second career. And at 50, they’ll be positively clapped out and have “post-economic” freedom foisted upon ...

DraftFCB could do with a winner or three and it seems to have produced one with this ad/online film for US retailer KMart’s online operation which has become, arguably, adland’s biggest gross-out online hit to date with zillions of online ...

I was flattered when Stephen asked me to sully the pages of MAA with my choice of “Desert Island Ads.” After all, the previous writers have indeed been the crème of London’s adverati whose opinions are valued in the best ...