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Uncommon’s latest instalment for ITV’s Britain Get Talking campaign brings together an entertaining combination of names and faces in a giant Zoom call – complete with accidental muting, people turning up late, wandering off, shouting over barking dogs and saying ...

User-generated messages of love and unity are being displayed on digital Out of Home screens worldwide with social media amplification ensuring the messages are also seen by millions – at home. Talon Outdoor is launching “#SendingLove” a new global initiative ...

Time was when a new agency needed a creative, a planner and a suit – Bartle Bogle Hegarty being the classic example – but these days life is a bit more complicated and James Murphy and David Golding’s new agency ...

Two entrepreneurs with their fingers eternally on the pulse — John Hegarty and Innocent Drinks founder Richard Reed — have struck on the idea of StoBox, a treasure chest of anti-bacterial ammunition to help us all feel safer as we ...

MAA could probably fill a few dozen “Blast from the Past” columns with John Webster commercials but the one that stands out for me is from around 1980 for John Smith’s Bitter. It features the lovely flat-capped Gordon Rollings and ...

It’s hard to pick just one as there are dozens that make me love my job. This makes you realise how formulaic automobile communication has become these days. Aside from the excellence of the idea, the direction, the casting, I ...

Nielsen has provided some insight into ad spending in the UK lockdown with figures for March – when the lockdown started – showing adspend on travel (down 48%) entertainment (-17%) and telecoms (-15%) plummeting. These categories were down £39m. Food ...

With some fanfare and no-little delay, ISBA has published a new study into programmatic advertising. The report found that about half – at best – of leading brands’ programmatic spend actually reaches publishers. The rest is eroded along the supply ...

Face masks are pretty common attire now, whether the government recommends them or not, and one side effect is that a lot of people are coming to the horrible realisation that their breath stinks. Determined not to waste a crisis, ...