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Bartle Bogle Hegarty has been running an Unsigned showcase every year since 2018, giving new and diverse talent a chance to get some exposure to people in the industry. This year, it’s got together with some of London’s best agencies ...

A combination of Mars, one of the world’s more capable marketers, and AMV BBDO, recently anointed agency of the year in Campaign’s Big Awards, should produce something, well, good. Tasked with making Mars’ Celebrations a year-round rather than Christmas speciality ...

Chipotle Mexican Grill was the big winner at Cannes a decade ago with ‘Back to the Start,’ an epic plugging its farming connections and now it’s back with another, this time with Kacey Musgraves doing the singing, in place of ...

More anthropomorphic creatures (albeit at a distance): a friendly Christmas hyena from Amazon’s Prime Video and agency CYW (a new one on us but they clearly know what they’re doing.) Well quite friendly, anyway. It’s Amazon’s first pan-European Christmas ad, ...

Dentsu International’s iProspect has won Gucci and YSL owner Kering’s global media account. The business moves from Publicis’ Zenith in a review handled by R3. Kering, founded by the French Pinault family, also owns Balenciaga and numerous other high end ...

Unilever is selling its tea business – including PG Tips and Lipton – to CVC Capital Partners for £3.8bn as it concentrates on more youthful customers, a fashionable although not necessarily more profitable thing to do. For many baby boomers ...

Michael Roth (below) is retiring as executive chairman of Interpublic (IPG) after nearly 20 years in what was once a very hot seat as Interpublic, the original ad holding company, wrestled with all manner of problems. He handed over the ...

The UK’s Channel 4 is going into overdrive as it tries to scupper the Government’s plans to privatise it – that is, flog it off to a US private equity firm – and now it’s released ‘Altogether Different,’ a hymn ...

First we had paper and paste billboards (remember Bill Stickers) then digital Out of Home (DOOH) now it’s anamorphic billboards, essentially 3-D illusions. Amazon’s answer to Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time starring Rosamund Pike, is debuting on Ocean Outdoor’s ...