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Here’s a Christmas number from Pepsico’s FritoLay (who came up with that name?) featuring actress Anna Kendrick cramming in all FL’s many brands to the tune of ‘My Favourite Things.’ There’s also a new one from adam&evenyc with Ryan Reynolds ...

I see that Jeremy Bullmore, one time chairman of JWT London, WPP’s in-house intellectual and celebrated agony uncle, is 90. Jeremy was the other side of JWT in its great days, the intellectual (the word is un-ignorable with Jeremy) aspect ...

Marks & Spencer’s “Go Jumpers” campaign might not have had the emotional impact of John Lewis or the cultural impact of Ikea, but it’s had a sales impact: the featured blue fairisle jumper was the retailer’s biggest selling womenswear product ...

Spain’s Loteria de Navidad (Christmas Lottery) is also known for its ads, recently featuring some winsome albeit effective animation. Contrapunto BBDO in Madrid is taking a different tack this year, which we might call reluctant reality. Dad feels obliged to ...

Running a big ad holding company must be rather like playing whack-a-mole, except for millions of dollars. Something troublesome keeps popping up just when you think it’s business as usual (if such a state still exists in such companies.) WPP ...

An anonymous Google doc is doing the rounds of agencies in the US, giving details (submitted anonymously) of agency salaries. With details of sex/sexual orientation and years of service which, to no-one’s great surprise, shows that white males of a ...

Two outdoor veterans have teamed up with Jonny Brackenbury – a former director of Credit Suisse and an original investor in Soho House – to launch a new digital out-of-home business, called Foris Outdoor. Founder and CEO Cennydd Roberts, who ...

The Kama Sutra doesn’t usually spring to mind when you’re looking for a mortgage but it has in the fevered imagination of Uncommon Creative Studio, with new print campaign for mortgage broker and lender Habito, featuring work by acclaimed Israeli ...

Advertising Week has joined the ever-growing list of “supporters” abandoning Prince Andrew”s Pitch@Palace tech initiative, aimed at drumming up funds for start-ups. Andrew, AKA the Duke of York, was due to pitch up at next year’s Advertising Week Europe shindig ...