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The Auld Enemy rivalry is cranking up as Scotland and England get ready to face one another in the group stages of the Euros in just a couple of weeks’ time. Adidas, which sponsors the Scotland kit (rival Nike is ...

The UK, and no doubt other countries too, is awash with pets as people have tried to cheer up lockdown – not sure what the pets think about it – so Pets At Home, whose share price has doubled in ...

Cancer Research UK is back with a hard-hitting campaign from Anomaly stating baldly that “one in two of us will get cancer.” Well that’s laying it on the line. And no doubt Cancer Research UK does plenty of good work. ...

Will the Euro football championship cheer up the Brits as we look forward to a summer of freedom from Covid restrictions? Might not get one of course as already the serried ranks of doomsters are warning about the Indian variant ...

D&AD has awarded three Black Pencils (its top award) this year, all of which went to campaigns with a cause. AMV BBDO’s “Womb Stories” raised awareness of women’s experiences; McCann New York’s “True Name” is a collaboration with Mastercard to ...

ITV is back, trying to tempt kids to eat their veggies by declaring war on them. From adam&eveDDB. While MullenLowe France is plugging July’s Olympics for France TV Sport, still on the runway although it’s stuttering a bit. Using Japanese ...

David Jones’ brand tech group You & Mr Jones has announced a new technology partner – important, presumably, in such an organisation – US-based CTO Will Luttrell plus net revenue growth of 34.3% in Q1 2021. Luttrell (left) was the ...

Betting firm Ladbrokes is going big on the Euros – well it would, wouldn’t it? – in a whopper campaign from former adam&eveDDB partner Jon Forsyth’s new agency Neverland, featuring just about every drummer on the planet. Or those who ...

Bloody Good Period is a charity on a mission to end period shame, and this ad by Mother joyously exposes the monthly indignities and inconveniences that are all-too familiar to half the world’s population. Ce Ce Peniston’s hit song “Finally” ...