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The perils of pitching are nothing new but — despite a lot of talk — little is ever done about the problem. Maybe because plenty of people enjoy the drama, and everyone enjoys winning. Now that mental health is higher ...

Barilla is celebrating its 145th birthday (obviously they couldn’t hang on a bit) with nifty new red packaging and a new line – Al Bronzo – which seems to be an attempt to move everyday brand Barilla up the culinary ...

BT is certainly wheeling out the big guns in the UK broadband wars and Saatchi & Saatchi is back with a rant about broadband nightmares, avoidable, it seems, with something called Halo 3+Hybrid (is it a car?) Maybe they are ...

Way back in 2013 my friend Jerry Judge wrote a piece for us decrying car companies’ relentless insistence on what he called “running footage” in their ads – and they’re still at it. There’s a Toyota ad all over the ...

Mother is launching a new pan-Asian project, the Asian Creators Index, to foster greater collaboration between the region’s creative community and the rest of the world. The idea is to expand the index, a searchable online gallery, to reflect creativity ...

Adam&eveDDB has landed the prestigious Deutsche Telekom account and is launching adam&eveBERLIN to lead the business out of the client’s largest market. Adam&eveBERLIN will be led by newly-appointed Chief Creative Officer, Jens Pfau, who joins from Jung Von Matt/Alster and ...

All of a sudden the world’s looking more troubled for adland, despite its better than expected bounceback form the recession. A perfect storm of war in the Ukraine and its effect on energy and commodity prices, a grinding halt in ...

VCCP’s latest campaign for Canon, “Never break your flow,” is all about demonstrating how easy it is to capture dynamic, moving content thanks to the Japanese brand’s new camera technology. As you might expect, there’s also a partnership with a ...

Didn’t know there was an Institute of Advertising Ethics but there is, it seems, and there’s a special IAE certificate – Certified Ethical Advertising Executive (CEAE) – developed with Creighton Business School and the University of Texas at Austin. Havas ...