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Google is doing its bit for LGBTQ+ people with a new attribute on business profiles allowing shops and others to mark themselves as ‘LGBTQ-friendly’ safe spaces. House of Greenland has produced the introductory film, featuring Orphan Tailoring in London’s East ...

Social media publisher Jungle Creations has sold a majority stake to private equity firm, Livingbridge for an undisclosed sum, following record revenue and profits. Jungle’s brands include Twisted, VT, Four Nine, Craft Factory, Level Fitness, Lovimals and Blue Crate. In ...

The Paralympians have been well and truly removed from their pedestal this year, what with Channel 4 knocking the “super” off “superhumans” and “wonderfully ordinary” from International Paralympics via adam&eveDDB. This “Watch me move” campaign for Unilever’s Sure, by You ...

Every week seems to bring a new ad from Wonderhood Studios, the agency founded by former Channel 4 boss and St Luke’s founder David Abraham. The agency seemed to get off to a slow start, hardly helped by the pandemic, ...

Branded entertainment comes and goes: once trumpeted as the next big thing it wasn’t, but seems durable all the same. One issue is where do ads end and branded entertainment start? Mother’s current series for Dubai with Zac Efron and ...

Cannaray, which sells CBD wellness products and medical cannabis, has launched a major TV campaign — which it claims is a UK first for the product — in a bid to grow CBD into a major FMCG category. Claudia Winkleman ...

Adam&eveDDB is collecting quite a menagerie: its ‘Love that feeling’ dog for the AA has become a viral wonder, there are all those nags for Lloyds Bank and now we have a skateboarding turtle for rail operator Avanti West Coast. ...

Channel 4’s All 4 is claiming to be the first UK broadcaster to allow advertisers to buy digital ad space programmatically through its new All 4 Private Marketplace, which uses real-time bidding. C4’s Future4 plan aims to deliver 30% of ...

The art of the sell on social media is often about time-sensitive offers, but VCCP and Cadbury’s have taken this to a new level with a limited edition Wispa Gold Hazelnut bar that is being sold as an investment opportunity ...