A popular summer game, I’m told, is getting up before your competitors to place your towel on the best sun lounger by the hotel pool. At the recent Cannes Lions ad festival there was a similar game, although you need ...
Read More »Adam&eve tries shoplifting for Harvey Nichols Rewards
Adam&eveDDB has set the bar pretty high for Harvey Nichols – a bag full of Grand Prix at Cannes last year for starters – but it keeps going, now with a CCTV spoof to launch the posh store chain’s Rewards ...
Read More »Adam&eve turns on the style for VW’s car service
VW is running a new print campaign through adam&eveDDB promoting its service standards. All car companies with dealer networks do this from time to time to try to stem the howls of outrage from customers startled by their service bills: ...
Read More »WPP forms special ‘Green Team’ for Lloyds re-pitch
The forthcoming Lloyds Bank pitch is shaping up to be UK adland’s version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the notorious shoot-out between the Earp brothers and their opponents from a loose confederation of outlaws, the Cowboys. In this ...
Read More »R/GA wins Cannes Lions Agency of the Year
Interpublic’s R/GA, once noted as a digital specialist, has won the Cannes Lions’ Agency of the Year with Droga5 (now 49 per cent owned by WME so still technically independent I guess) voted Independent Agency of the Year. WPP won ...
Read More »Adam&eve back in the saddle for Lloyds Bank’s 250th
When Lloyds Bank finally got its man – adam&eveDDB to work on its 250th anniversary – it was probably hoping for some John Lewis-style magic. Well this is what it got – a tale of boys and girls and their ...
Read More »Lloyds finally pitches adam&eve against Y&R
Sooner or later there was bound to a face-off between incumbent RKCR?Y&R and adam&eveDDB for Lloyds Bank. The A&E crew worked on the business at Y&R and, five years since James Murphy, David Golding and Ben Priest broke away, it’s ...
Read More »Adam&eveDDB launches big new AA campaign
Here’s adam&eveDDB’s big new campaign for recovery service (and much else besides) the AA. The strategy is ‘We Are The AA’ – well can’t argue with that, nobody else is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous – and the line is: “We’ve ...
Read More »Lastminute.com launches first pan-Euro campaign through Adam&eveDDB
Travel business Lastminute.com was a digital pioneer in the UK and, although it never quite took over the world as intended, is still with us. And moving forward, it seems, as it’s just launching its first pan-European TV campaign through ...
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