My old alma mater Campaign is planning to launch a US edition, digital only apparently, based in New York. I can’t recall if this is the venerable UK title’s first effort to crack the States, there may well have been ...
Read More »Are these world’s top creative hotshops?
Adweek has sent us its list of ‘Agencies that make today’s best ad campaigns’ – ie the world’s top hotshops – and it’s pretty interesting. Some of them were on our radar, others not. Most, but not all, are owned ...
Read More »Adweek celebrates 35 years with ‘best of’ reel
Adweek in the US is 35 it seems, so it’s produced a video of outstanding/interesting ads from each of those years. They’re mostly American, obviously (these are the ex-colonials who think there’s a ‘World Series’ of baseball. But W+K London ...
Read More »Is this new Jack & Jones campaign from &Co the early leader in next year’s ad awards stakes?
Well the campaign for the Danish fashion brand from Copenhagen agency &Co is certainly causing quite a stir. It features Christopher Walken plugging the Jack & Jones upscale line Made From Cool. The great man does everything from selecting his ...
Read More »Emmy ad shortlist shows a shortage of creativity
The US Emmy Awards celebrate the best programmes and performances in TV and, inevitably, they’ve added ads. For the last four years the ad award has gone to Wieden+Kennedy for undoubted top of the range stuff for the likes of ...
Read More »Martin Sorrell: why I became a convert to Cannes
Here’s another of Adweek’s filmed nuggets from Cannes; this one with now seasoned Riviera boulevardier Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP (that man again) explaining how he became a convert to the excesses of the Martinez and the Gutter Bar. We’re ...
Read More »Were these the best ads shown at Cannes? Probably – but not many are for brands as we know them
Here’s Adweek’s reel of the 21 best film ads at Cannes this year. Most of the top ten we spotted in advance, some of the next ten we didn’t so they’re quite interesting (some of them we did and didn’t ...
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