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Adam&eveDDB is clearly emerging, fangs at the ready, from its Paddington fastness to reclaim its various agency of the year crowns and see off challenges from the likes of former founders’ New Commercial Arts, Uncommon and the rest. Nearly everything ...

Omnicom’s DDB Worldwide has unveiled a new mantra – or brand platform as we call them these days – ‘Unexpected Works.’ So it’s advertising it in one of the least expected places, a billboard in Garston, New Zealnd which boasts ...

Global Citizen is an organisation with the noble aim of ending extreme poverty in the world by 2030. Google is doing its bit to help, and has appointed BBH to create a campaign focused on one of its goals, “Resume ...

The Oprah interview was taken very much at face value in the US, with Meghan Markle’s “truth” comprehensively trumping Piers Morgan’s interpretation of it. Procter & Gamble has jumped on the bandwagon of support for Markle and is now “beyond ...

The Queen’s Speech yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to introduce a 9pm watershed for HFSS advertising on TV, and a total ban for online starting in April next year. The advertising industry has been fighting against this for years, arguing ...

Richard Warren of Lloyds Bank (a former senior adman) observed recently that nobody in agencies could write any more, or words to that effect, causing a stir but hardly a tidal wave of denial. The 30-second commercial is one of ...

New Zealand-based Special Group (a new one on me I’m ashamed to say) was voted Campaign’s global agency of the year. Here they are doing their patriotic bit for their homeland. Confident with some nice touches. Maybe they are special…. ...

KFC’s new campaign gets quite sentimental about its customers, building a mutual love story that involves real stories of KFC tattoos, a marriage proposal over a bargain bucket, and the dramas of the great chicken shortage of 2018. It ends ...

It doesn’t look like many of us are going to be able to watch the Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City on May 29 – Istanbul, the designated location is looking unlikely so UEFA is thinking of moving ...