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Gillette has followed up its “toxic masculinity” campaign with one that looks likely to gain even more media attention, a transgender Canadian being taught to shave by his dad. A far cry from Dollar Shave Club. Lots of people have ...

Owen Lee is chief creative officer of FCB Inferno #Defythename This is a powerful example of how the brave can create social change. Spearheaded by Monika Lewinsky, and featuring an all-star cast, the knock-on effect of the #defythename campaign was ...

What to make of this? It’s Lucozade and Grey Advertising’s opus for the Women’s World Cup, using the words of Baddiel and Skinner’s ‘(Three Lions) Football’s Coming Home’ anthem from 1986. Then it was 30 years of hurt (since England ...

If you want classy content just send for Eric Cantona- wind him up and watch him go. The former Manchester United star turned actor has fronted some more than decent campaigns – Kronenbourg for one – and here he is ...

Anomaly has won the global business for US-based online and betting firm The Stars Group, owner the world’s biggest poker site PokerStars. The account will be handled out of New York and London with Anomaly’s other five offices across the ...

The mighty AT&T is entering the programme streaming market via its Time Warner acquisition (nobody’s going to buy all these streams surely?) and here’s BBDO New York in the driver’s cab for the goodies it has in store. Interesting that ...

Sir Martin Sorrell (below) has had another pop at WPP in an interview with Financial News, saying people at WPP see their job as a “burden” these days and that the W in WPP seems to stand for Wunderman as ...

Stephen Ledger-Lomas is head of production and a partner at BBH London Amazon ‘Vikings’ Director: Steve Rogers Funny is tough in advertising, hard to win those battles, find the right director, get the client to trust his vision and casting. ...

It seems to have taken VCCP two years to come up with a Tango TV campaign (might not be their fault of course.) Britvic’s Tango is something of a rite of passage for agencies, trying to imitate the impact HHCL ...