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Unilever’s Chicken Tonight has always been synonymous with truly awful advertising (remember Ian Wright?) but now, somewhat amazingly, it’s found a winner from MullenLowe Alfred in Amsterdam. By enlisting that horror of horrors, a spoof Jerry Springer show. Pleasingly bonkers ...

Asda has an interesting selection of agencies pitching for its UK ad account currently at Omnicom’s AMV BBDO (which is repitching.) It’s up against VCCP Blue (described as VCCP’s “specialist advertising arm”), WPP’s Wunderman Thompson, Interpublic’s FCB Inferno and a ...

What to make of this one? Mondelez’ Green & Black’s chocolate has taken to the airwaves with agency VCCP to tell us it’s “wildly deliciously organic.” You can see why G&B feels it needs to do this: the UK’s supermarket ...

One of the original digital shops, R/GA, is now positioning itself as the agency for a “A More Human Future” and upping its client services offering as proof. Rowena Vithlani has been brought in from AnalogFolk as SVP executive client ...

Kraft Heinz has appointed We Are Social as its social media agency of record in continental Europe. The agency, which has six offices in Europe and 15 globally, will kick off the relationship with Kraft Heinz with a strategic and ...

Once upon a time any new creative agency that made an impact could expect the big ad holding companies to come knocking but it doesn’t seem to be the case these days. The last two really big deals were Omnicom ...

UK agency Who Wot Why can usually be relied on for something a little different and they don’t disappoint with this debut effort for “natural, palm free” peanut butter Pip & Nut. Apparently people in lockdown spend as much time ...

The streets may be empty, but LinkedIn is teeming with home workers who have shifted online for networking opportunities, so there’s a logic in Big Issue vendors following their customers into the world of profile-raising and contact-making. FCB Inferno has ...

One Minute Briefs describes itself as a ‘bank of creativity,” inviting its 28,000 followers to submit ads for brands and causes off their own bat. British creative Sam Hennig has hit the jackpot (financially too we hope) with this poster ...