More About Advertising The alternative voice of advertising, marketing and media

A new Samsung ad by Ogilvy New York has been criticised by women’s running groups and campaigners for showing a woman getting up at 2am to go running alone through the streets of a city, wearing her Samsung headphones. Reclaim ...

The UK ad market reached a record £31.9bn in 2021, equating to growth of 34.3% year-on-year. The latest AA/WARC full year figures reveal the 2021 ad market emerged £8bn larger than April 2020’s original forecast of £24bn, set at the ...

It’s hardly another rebrand but DDB, one of the creative feathers in Omnicom’s hat, has “re-imagined” its Four Freedoms, the principles guiding the agency articulated by Keith Reinhard back in 1987. They were (and remain) Freedom from Fear, Freedom to ...

Another day, another rebrand: Accenture Interactive has decided it needs a new, groovy identity and from now on it’s going to be known as Accenture Song. More practically this means all its agencies, including Karmarama in the UK and The ...

WPP has joined rivals Omnicom and Publicis in moving strongly into 2022 (Ukraine war notwithstanding) reporting organic growth of 9.5% across the board on a revenue increase of 6.7% to just over £3bn in Q1. WPP’s measure of organic growth ...

Elon Musk, the man with a wealth equivalent to the GDP of New Zealand and one of the most prominent free speech advocates is now (in his own words) “looking forward to unlocking Twitter’s potential.” When it comes to adland, ...

Asahi beer has a ring of the 90s to it – the Super Dry version was created in Japan in 1987 to be more like an American beer and then popularised around the world. As the 90s are back in ...

It takes quite a lot to make us warm to Donald Trump (actually warm is a bit strong) but here he is on the first Piers Morgan Uncensored segment of Rupert Murdoch’s new Talk TV, trying to get a word ...

Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44bn (with a third of the money coming from banks) but it’s far from clear how he’s going to get the money back. But maybe that’s not the point. Very rich people (Musk is ...