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Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas do they? And they gobble a lot. These are the two seminal jokes in this McCann London film for Paxo, stuffing in a packet for those of us who are going to make something wonderful ...

WPP’s GroupM, in effect the controller of its various media agencies, is threatening to pull around £200m of ads from UK broadcaster Channel 4 (27 per cent of the total) if the publicly-owned broadcaster won’t agree to revised (lower presumably) ...

Aaargh! The UK ad watchdog The Advertising Standards Authority is investigating the Morrisons Christmas campaign because some people have complained that the main ad is sexist: It’s a joke you muppets – and half the population is female. Would it ...

You don’t have to look far for this year’s Big Theme in the Epica creative advertising awards. After 25 years as a Eurocentric awards scheme, with a nod now and then to the wider EMEA hinterland, Epica finally went global, ...

Thanks for all the online Christmas cards, obviously we can’t do all of them. Sometimes they’re an opportunity to take the mickey about all the task which are deal with duly seriously the rest of the year. And there’s some ...

Beyonce has signed up with Pepsi, part of its answer to Coca-Cola’s attempt to take over the music business. She’ll be the centrepiece of its Super Bowl extravaganza and, no doubt, ‘brand ambassador’ all over the place. Well fifty million ...

Marketing magazine in the UK has chosen BBH, Bartle Bogle Hegarty as was, as its creative agency of the year, among a long list of agencies doing all sorts of things, which BBH presumably doesn’t. PHD wins its media agency ...

Here’s Maurice Levy’s Christmas card from Publicis Groupe. It’s been an interesting year for PG; a good financial performance by peer group standards, the acquisition of LBi and a neat and advantageous exit from its partnership with Dentsu. But is ...

Unilever’s Axe appears to be taking a new turn (for the worse?) in this new ad from Buenos Aires agency Ponce: anti-ageing properties for men. It’s all tongue-in-cheek of course but women spend millions (billions?) on these potions and no ...