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International charity WaterAid has appointed Don’t Panic to handle a three to five year campaign to help it bring clean water and associated hygiene to poor and marginalised communities. The agency is currently developing a Coronavirus response campaign showing how ...

Here’s Graham Fink for the One Club For Creativity’s Creative Month explaining, from his lockdown cave, how he sees creativity. Fink, a multimedia artist as well as lauded ad creative (and good friend of MAA), praises the generalist over the ...

Bartle Bogle Hegarty is one of the agencies that shaped modern communications. The three – planner Bartle, account man Bogle and creative Hegarty, broke away from TBWA London to found BBH in 1982. The rest, as they say, is history. ...

London agency VCCP has been taking Cadbury in some interesting – and, on the face of it, downbeat directions for the past couple of years – so Covid-19 lockdown was probably irresistible. Here they are doing their community bit, neighbours ...

New figures from Ad Age show that US agencies and other communications companies (including PR) cut 36,400 jobs in April as Covid-19 struck, down 7.5 per cent. Hardly surprising as up to 20 million jobs across the US have been ...

WPP’s Wunderman Thompson is reported to have won Samsung Mobile’s social media account, worth an estimated $10m. The business was formerly handled by PR agency Edelman. Wunderman Thompson has so far not commented, Edelman says it’s still working on other ...

Is the political battle over Covid-19 about semantics? Boris Johnson’s UK government is fond of a slogan – ‘Get Brexit Done’ and all that – but now there’s a battle about its shift to ‘Stay Alert’ as the UK moves ...

It’s the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe), celebrated in suitably boisterous fashion at the time as a grateful world bade goodbye to Adolf and his odious cronies. Piccadilly Lights owner Landsec and operator Ocean Outdoor have donated ...

John Smith’s has sired innumerable outstanding ads, beginning at John Webster’s BMP. But, in the 2000s, it landed at TBWA and happened across Bolton’s Peter Kay (not a Tadcaster lad but definitely northern and the most gifted comedian of his ...