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When does purpose in advertising become preachiness? These days P&G is following long-time rival Unilever down the purpose route, most notably with Gillette which seems to be trying to redefine what men are all about – apart from beings who ...

Picture the scene, if you will. A YouTube clip begins with a woman wearing black vinyl, high-waisted chaps-style knickers and a cut-out orange bra. She drags a neon bar behind her. The camera pans up, and she turns to look ...

As we’ve noted before, Sir Martin Sorrell used to say that Omnicom was good at operations but had no strategy, although SMS has been kinder since he quit WPP for S4Capital. No strategy seems to be paying off as the ...

S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is 75 on Friday (St Valentine’s Day – happy birthday Martin) but advancing years don’t seem to have mellowed him. In an Ad age podcast he refers to the way all the holding companies, especially his ...

Digital dystopia is a recurring theme in many ads these days, unless you’re a social media purveyor of course. And they don’t care, they’re coinng it. Anyway, we never expected to find DD in the bathroom but that’s where London ...

Nobody really knows how continental travel is going to change for Brits post Brexit but the Eurostar train service still has a lot going going for it, with more people becoming more disenchanted with air travel in particular – emissions, ...

Great things were expected from former Channel 4 boss David Abraham’s Wonderhood Studios when it launched about a year ago but since then not much has emerged, although Wonderhood has been busy on the programme-making front. But now the agency ...

So are prime minister Boris Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings (Dom as his friends call him, assuming he has any) a danger to democracy? Well they might be if you think media access to our elected leaders is ...

It is, of course, St Valentine’s Day on Friday (you’d forgotten, obviously) when, among other things, the card population rises. Two creatives from The Gate London, Beth Grace and Hannah Cunningham, have spotted a dearth of LGBTQA+ offerings on the ...