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Saatchi & Saatchi in the UK has been appointed to handle the global Betway account, one of the betting firms that seems to be taking over the world. The business moves from Above & Beyond, which produced some of the ...

Vilnius in Lithuania is the G-spot of Europe according to a new tourism campaign from some ingenious ad students – “nobody knows where it is, but when you find it – it’s amazing.” The video’s not so good. Caused a ...

This new ad from Isobel for Silver Cross new buggy brand Micralite achieved the ‘Turkey of the week’ soubriquet from one publication today, the writer observing that it looks like the kids are ascending to heaven. It does a bit ...

George Osborne’s reign as chancellor under David Cameron might be seen as an example of the laws of unintended consequences. His decision to allow people to draw down a significant lump of their painstakingly acquired pensions in 2015, far from ...

Can the Trojan Man do for protected sex what Isaiah Mustafa did for Old Spice? The Church & Dwight condom brand has brought Trojan Man back in a debut campaign from 72andSunny. And he’s into diversity, experimentation and, it seems, ...

Bulls have featured in commercial communications to some effect recently, the Merrill Lynch one next to the Fearless Girl for State Street. Professional Bull Riders (PBR) is hosting an event in Washington DC, the home, it says, of bullsh*t (why ...

Selling cars is more about selling gadgets and apps these days and Volkswagen has a new one, Car-net which helps you find the damn thing when you can’t remember where you parked it. Technology is turning us all into idiots: ...

Here’s a funny thing: the latest Halifax ad from adam&eveDDB appeared at the weekend and now it seems to have disappeared, from YouTube and anyone using it online. It is (or was) a Ghostbusters spin, plugging contactless debit cards, and ...

Life goes on at WPP even as it mulls the successor to Sir Martin Sorrell and key to its fortunes are its big agency networks, the foundation of the business. New markets are also crucial and WPP’s operations in China ...