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April is the cruellest month famously opined TS Eliot (can’t help recalling a celebrated Private Eye spoof with January, February and March crossed out by Ezra Pound – try April, he wrote.) But it’s no laughing matter for UK adland ...

In these isolated, locked-down times, with uncertainty and hardship ahead, my blast from the past is a beautiful slice of future-facing optimism – the launch commercial for Orange by WCRS. I re-joined WCRS to work on Orange just after this ...

Choice has driven the growth of the consumer goods market for decades. Offering a seemingly never-ending array of products has for a long time seemed to be the best way of boosting profits. However, this received wisdom has recently been ...

Heineken 1985 by Lowe Howard-Spink I joined Gold Greenlees Trott (GGT) in 1984 and found a place with widely diverging social backgrounds from Dave Trott’s proletariat view of the world versus my assistant Bella who was from the Hanson family, ...

Havas Media Group has lured Patrick Affleck (below) from Dentsu X to be its new UK CEO. He replaces Matt Adams who left to join Brainlabs as global MD. Affleck was CEO of Dentsu X and, before that, president of ...

WPP CEO Mark Read has had a pretty good war so far and now he’s responded to the Covid-19 virus and consequent dramatic slowdown by scrapping its share buyback plan (saving £650m) and suspending its final 2019 dividend to save ...

I think my blast from the past has to be pretty much every ad BBH did for Levi’s. Always different, always spot on and always dictating cultural conversation. But if I had to pick one it would be Flat Eric, ...

People are reading more magazines and newspapers (if they can get hold of them) in the time of Covid-19 (I even read the leader in the Mail on Sunday which I never do.) Online magazine digital subscription app Readly has ...

Agencies all over the place are trying to do their bit against the dreaded virus and, sorry, we don’t have space to cover them all. Here’s an interesting effort from Anatomised in London, telling it like it is. From Mike ...