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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” (Dr. Seuss.) Or, to put it another way: reading is good for you. I doubt this brooks much disagreement: ...

It’s hard to remember a time when one figure was so dominant in the advertising industry, but David (don’t ever call him Dave) Droga has taken on official guru status. He was the king of the Croisette last week, and ...

Wieden+Kennedy is the 2019 Cannes Lions Agency of the Year – chiefly thanks to a wheelbarrow full of Lions for Nike’s ‘Dream Crazy’ – but Droga5 New York’s ‘the Truth is Worth It’ won the Film Grand Prix to add ...

S4Capital may still be a nut (it varies) according to boss Sir Martin Sorrell but it’s a nut with a considerable global reach. Now the owner of MediaMonks and programmatic media company MightyHive is expanding into Australia with a conditional ...

Much chatter about “purpose” at Cannes so it’s nice to see something awarded that actually does good. Microsoft Xbox’s Adaptive Controller campaign for people with disabilities debuted at the Super Bowl, courtesy of McCan New York. And it’s picked up ...

Ocean Outdoor is rolling out a new network of digital 6-sheet poster screens in partnership with Birmingham City Council. The new network will cover main city arterial and commuter routes. The screens are being supplied by Samsung with Esprit Digital. ...

Amid all the noise and nonsense of the three-ring buzzword circus that is the Cannes festival, it’s nice to get away from it all and check out what the creatives keep telling us the whole event is supposed to be ...

Leagas Delaney is launching a new upscale chocolate brand Firetree, described as “vegan-friendly volcanic chocolate,” which seems to tick most boxes. Firetree beans are grown on volcanic slopes. The agency is also an investor in the brand which was launched ...

What on earth is ‘woke-washing?’ It was instanced by new Unilever CEO Alan Jope at a roundtable in Cannes and seems to mean what some brands do when they claim “brand purpose” for their own evil ends. Unilever, of course, ...