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BT is making some big claims for its broadband via new agency Saatchi & Saatchi and here’s another one, claiming it’s services (88% of them if you read the small print) are “unbreakable.” As with the recent CleanMyMac ad from ...

Agencies make big money from lots of under-the-radar things, healthcare marketing being one. A high margin business too (draw your own conclusions.) Publicis Health in the US is being sued by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey for designing and deploying ...

TBWA is famous for its work for Apple but TBWA\Helsinki is also on the case for CleanMyMac, an independent outfit that, well, cleans your Mac. Macs are supposedly less prone to disasters (not my experience) so TBWA envisages the end ...

Let’s hope this time it really is post-pandemic. New commercials are tumbling out, some shot in lockdown and kept until markets open up. BBDO is one of the mighty engines of Omnicom and will surely play a big role as ...

Neil Christie, the architect of Wieden+Kennedy’s London operation along with creatives Tony Davidson and Kim Papworth, is leaving after 17 years. Christie recently returned to London after a brief spell as COO of the independent agency group in Portland. Christie ...

British Airways is back on the airwaves with a workmanlike effort from Ogilvy. Once upon a time BA was the blue riband of UK, maybe global, ad accounts. Now Ogilvy could hardly have essayed this in a pandemic, even had ...

Miller High Life styles itself the “champagne of beers” (have to consult my friend George Parker on this one) and now, to coincide with National Tourism Day in the US, it’s cheekily demanding that this soubriquet is only allowed for ...

British Airways is saddling up for a (hoped-for) return to the air with its first post-pandemic campaign. “We all have something that makes us fly,” it says, “for us it’s you.” Well, yes. From WPP’s Team Horizon headed by Ogilvy, ...

Tequila magnate and sometime actor and director George Clooney is the “toast of Bolton” according to one newspaper – after this ad for Bolton-based baker Warburtons, featuring the alternative attraction of toast. Agency Engine (WCRS as was) has always had ...