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Lucky Generals has picked Katie Lee as its first CEO. Lee was one of Paul Lawson’s management team at Y&R before owner WPP merged it into VML and decided it didn’t need the Y&R trio: CEO Lawson, CCO Jon Burley ...

Vegetables are a scary bunch in adam&eveDDB’s ad for ITV’s new healthy eating campaign, which features sinister cauliflowers, smirking sweetcorn, and an avalanche of Brussell sprouts. Children are invited to #EatThemToDefeatThem, in a kind of reverse psychology move that portrays ...

If you are looking to expose hypocrisy, the World Economic Forum in Davos is a good place to start. Business leaders and politicians have flown in to the Swiss ski resort this week on their private jets (1,500 private flights ...

Nearly half the people who watch the NFL Super Bowl are women so Procter & Gamble is making its debut for Olay with a new ad from Saatchi & Saatchi. Anyway, in these non-gender specific days, no doubt men use ...

Sir Martin Sorrell is in Davos this week and here he is plugging new venture S4 Capital. S4 may have morphed from a peanut to a coconut according to SMS. It’s also gaining a mind-numbing amount of publicity even if ...

Gillette’s controversial ‘toxic masculinity’ campaign is the gift that keeps on giving, as least as far as the world’s humorists and some other brands are concerned. We’ve already had Egard Watches’ spin on it and Saturday Night Live has entered ...

It’s nearly ten years since BP found itself in the mire after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico but now the oil giant (these days they’re energy giants of course) is stepping carefully back onto the world ...

I have written about AI before, wondering whether ads produced by AI might be as good as, if not better than, many of the ads we see on our screens produced by humans. Well, Lexus and their agencies have now ...

Mother, as far as we know, doesn’t have an outpost in Minneapolis but the feisty (albeit seasoned) London independent may be about to pick up more work from big US retailer Target which has just dispensed with the services of ...