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Say what you like about Love Island, but it does inspire some good brand sponsor idents. These ones for Just Eat by McCann London introduce a surprise contestant in the Cape Town sunshine, Derek. Derek is a Just Eat delivery ...

WPP’s David, named after David Ogilvy, is one of the brightest stars in WPP’s somewhat troubled creative firmament, but the Miami-based agency has been hit by a big breakaway including some of the founders, to form indie agency Gut. But ...

A source “close to Prince Harry” told Vanity Fair that Meghan and Harry “plan to be the royal version of the Beckhams.” Apparently, a major reason for the couple standing down from the Royal Family is so that they can ...

Recent media forecasts from sources such as GroupM have forecast slow but continued growth in advertising expenditure in 2020. In these reports, out of home, and more specifically, digital out of home (DOOH), has been identified as one of the ...

Wieden+Kennedy is making its debut for the National Trust – won towards the end of last year – with a year-long online, social and print campaign hymning the National Trust’s role as an oasis of calm in a noisy, hectic ...

One door opening when another closes has (nearly) always been the way in adland although one suspects there are quite a few people waiting for the next door to open as agencies – in the UK and US anyway – ...

Somehow or other Boots is still with us on the struggling British high street although it looks urgently in need of a retread. But people still need pharmacies.. Ogilvy took over the reins from Mother a couple of years ago ...

Good luck to Ofcom’s Sharon White as she takes over as boss of the john Lewis Partnership when the owner of the eponymous department stores reports Christmas like for like sales down two per cent and dispenses with the service ...

Earlier this year Virgin Media took a truly data-driven approach to creative solutions, embodying the ‘unlimiting’ power of its services with a unique UK-wide campaign that physically broke out of more Out of Home frames than ever before. Virgin Media ...