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Coors Light has abandoned the mountain tops (mostly) to become the “official beer of done wearing a bra” as it strives to attract younger drinkers (female in this case, obviously) who are more likely to dive into the chardonnay as ...

Bankable format shows are becoming increasingly important to broadcasters, and a big attraction for advertisers, as ITV2’s Love Island has demonstrated once again this summer. Channel 4 made a surprise success of The Great British Bake Off when it moved ...

21st century tech is a wonderful thing for early stage investors and – sometimes – consumers but it seems to becoming increasingly difficult to make money out of it. Ride hailing giant Uber is laying off 400 of its 1200 ...

By Helen James, managing director of Crispin Porter Bogusky, London As many of us saw, research released earlier this month claims that people working in the UK ad industry are unable to empathize with the ‘modern mainstream’ (defined as the ...

Vauxhall is one of those anomalies of British life (elsewhere it’s Opel), one that might disappear if Boris’ Brexiters get their way. And, somehow or other, there are few things more British than men in vans (and women of course, ...

Think somebody at Wieden+Kennedy London has been sorting their old record collection. The agency’s new summer biggie for Coca-Cola features a ‘Sticky Fingers’-type tongue (bottom.) A more regular W+K trait is its enthusiastic focus on taste in all its glory, ...

UK adspend rose 4.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2019, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC expenditure report. The figure is in comparision to the first quarter of last year, when we were all braced for Brexit on ...

Looks like new UK PM Boris Johnson is preparing to do his bit for the ad industry as he prepares to wrench the country kicking and screaming from the EU (some of the country anyway) with his minions letting it ...

Samsung is venturing into Nike ‘Dream Crazy’ territory with ‘Do What You Can’t,’ in this instance from Leo Burnett Israel. But isn’t this already becoming something of a cliche? And won’t people get a bit fed up of seeing others ...