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Oh all right then, let’s have another Christmas ad. This time we’re off to Chile for a touching tale of a volunteer firefighter who lands what nobody wants: the Christmas Eve shift. By Punkrobot and McCann Santiago for store chain ...

Drinks giant Diageo is reviewing its flagship Johnnie Walker account, currently shared between MDC Partners’ Anomaly and 72andSunny. It has already moved some digital business from R/GA to AnalogFolk, a big win for the independent digital and social network. Before ...

It’s arguably the biggest week of the year for the ad business (and many others of course) with a crucial Parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s Brexit plan due tomorrow (Tuesday) although it’s this column’s view that the Government may yet ...

AG Barr brand Rubicon has appointed London independent Red Brick Road as its retained creative agency. The agency was appointed after a final pitch involving two others in a process run through Creativebrief. Rubicon is a fruit drink with a ...

I’m not saying I have any tips for Theresa May as she tries to get her Brexit deal through Parliament, but I do recognise some of the challenges she faces: a dodgy brief and too many people with a say ...

I have to admit I was quite sniffy when I saw this was a Christmas ad for Uber Eats and Coca-Cola. Christmas isn’t the healthiest of times, but usually there’s plenty of home cooked food and some tangerines to offset ...

It’s been a good year for Lucky Generals with loads of work from Amazon and now the majority Omnicom owned agency has won Co-op Group. Co-op’s last major creative agency was Leo Burnett. Lucky Generals will handle Co-op’s food, funerals, ...

It’s nice when someone’s able to leave their job without an investigation in sight and the Twittersphere is loaded with tributes to Unilever’s departing CMCO to give him his full moniker (the ‘C’ stands for communications) Keith Weed. It’s another ...

Accenture Interactive has had a great time for the past few years as it has cherry-picked creative agencies and lured a few big international marketers with its pitch as the “global experience agency.” But it hasn’t quite happened yet even ...