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It sometimes looks as though Volkswagen is busily trashing 50 years of outstanding brand building as the embattled car giant unleashes the procurement desperados on its ad budgets. In the UK it seems to be finding it hard to persuade ...

Adweek reports that troubled FMCG giant Johnson & Johnson (it’s facing a barrage of health-related lawsuits among other issues) is slashing its ad budget after setting up a new structure involving bespoke units from Omnicom and WPP. J&J used to ...

James Murphy is a co-founder of adam&eveDDB, the world’s most awarded creative agency of recent years. Chicken Town for KFC. Hard to execute this brief without being clunky but Mother does what it does best here. Effortless confidence, crafted to ...

If you want to find the cutest animal on the planet, you could do worse that the slow loris. It’s a little nocturnal primate that can melt your heart strings with bigger eyes than Puss in Boots from Shrek. YouTube ...

One of the uncomfortable truths about modern life is that customer service gets worse rather than better. Despite all the bullshit our bigger companies dispense. Aldi has made great inroads into the UK – chiefly by being cheaper and more ...

Remember sensurround sound? Now you can have the visual equivalent in cinema ads, courtesy of Cineworld’s SceenX in the UK. It’s now in eight UK cinemas (works for films too.) The technology extends the screen onto the side walls of ...

While supermarket wars get nasty and the Brexiteers hijack nostalgia for their own purposes, Tesco has decided to play nice with a selection of joyful memories from the last few decades. All-action presenter Anneka Rice, fitness guru Mr Motivator, clay ...

Bouncing balls are pretty useful things in ads (as Sony Bravia discovered all those years ago) and they’re used to good effect in a new global campaign for Mastercard from McCann. Part of Mastercard’s Start Something Priceless campaign, the new ...

Leading independent Out of Home agency Talon Outdoor has launched two new AdTech platforms. Plato is an automated trading platform, which aggregates all OOH inventory into a single, intuitive campaign planning and delivery system. It allows users to explore, plan, ...