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Two entrepreneurs with their fingers eternally on the pulse — John Hegarty and Innocent Drinks founder Richard Reed — have struck on the idea of StoBox, a treasure chest of anti-bacterial ammunition to help us all feel safer as we ...

MAA could probably fill a few dozen “Blast from the Past” columns with John Webster commercials but the one that stands out for me is from around 1980 for John Smith’s Bitter. It features the lovely flat-capped Gordon Rollings and ...

It’s hard to pick just one as there are dozens that make me love my job. This makes you realise how formulaic automobile communication has become these days. Aside from the excellence of the idea, the direction, the casting, I ...

Nielsen has provided some insight into ad spending in the UK lockdown with figures for March – when the lockdown started – showing adspend on travel (down 48%) entertainment (-17%) and telecoms (-15%) plummeting. These categories were down £39m. Food ...

With some fanfare and no-little delay, ISBA has published a new study into programmatic advertising. The report found that about half – at best – of leading brands’ programmatic spend actually reaches publishers. The rest is eroded along the supply ...

Face masks are pretty common attire now, whether the government recommends them or not, and one side effect is that a lot of people are coming to the horrible realisation that their breath stinks. Determined not to waste a crisis, ...

Donald Trump’s gonna love this one: Ford’s ‘Built for America’ from Wieden+Kennedy hymning its patriotic creds and (highly praiseworthy) recent switch of production to manufacture health worker kit amid the virus. A timely spin (Ford goes back to making cars ...

Sir John Hegarty is a member of the hugely talented group of UK creatives who emerged from art schools in the 1960s. An accomplished art director he worked at Benton & Bowles and Cramer Saatchi before leading creative at TBWA ...

London jobs continue to grow, but other UK cities are closing the gap on job growth in many industries. So, will London continue to dominate UK job sector growth? London has been leading the job growth race for years without ...