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Son paid us a surprise visit this morning and, aside from raiding the fridge, told us smugly that his bank/building society Nationwide had just given him £100. As a building society Nationwide is a mutual and, as a bank. is ...

New York’s The One Show remains one of adland’s elite awards events and the big winner this year was Apple (there’s a surprise), specifically its ‘The Greatest’ ad from Apple London. Quite a feather in London’s cap. Disability may be ...

Jed Grossman, who has worked at Mother and Crispin Porter in New York, and most recently was ECD of independent shop Arts & Letters in Virginia, has joined VCCP as its first CCO for North America. Reporting to global CCO ...

Top Tips for Cannes See My Pain — FamousGrey There will be a lot of AI-cases featured at Cannes this year. But I believe ‘See my Pain’ will stand out. This campaign for Helan, a Belgian health care plan, uses ...

Facebook (Meta) made nearly $6bn profit in the first quarter of 2023 (down on 2022 but still) so a fine of €1.2bn from the usually accommodating Irish government for breaking EU data transfer rules won’t make too much difference to ...

Morrisons has departed Publicis.Poke (or whatever it’s called) for another part of the empire, Publicis-owned Leo Burnett – famed, among other things, for its slice-of-life work for McDonald’s. So we have a series of 20-second vignettes (retailers obviously love 20 ...

Cannes Lions runs from June 19 to June 23 this year. What has caught the eye of our creatives? First up is FCB London CCO Owen Lee. Predicting Cannes can be a fool’s errand. Jury rooms have been known to ...

BMW Films is back with The Calm, a jeopardy-packed opus designed to showcase the big new electric beemer’s self-driving ability. You can also drive it yourself, as passenger Pom Klementieff does to some effect here. She’s headed for the Martinez ...

Poor old “purpose” is taking a right bashing at the moment as adland tires of it and loads of would-be purposeful advertisers proceed to trash their carefully curated brands by hiking prices and generally being beastly in the cost of ...