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We can imagine the euphoria that swept over AMV BBDO on Friday when they won Asda from Saatchi & Saatchi. The picture above, Tweeted by AMV on Friday with the caption, “Let the celebrations begin,” shows just how ecstatic the ...

AMV BBDO has found another ‘victim’ for its ‘Please Not Them’ campaign for the National Lottery, singer James Blunt of ‘You’re Beautiful’ fame – or notoriety. And here we have Blunts all over the place, more than some of the ...

Sir Martin Sorrell stirred up some controversy in adland recently by suggesting media has become the lead discipline over creativity (and by implication account management). It seems to me a number of arguments on both sides of the debate are ...

Giles Keeble started as a rep (account man) at JWT before moving to BMP. There Stanley Pollitt told him that JWT’s Stephen King (the co-founder of account planning with Pollitt) had wanted him to become a planner. John Webster encouraged ...

My previous piece on the TBWA news of the appointment of Peter Souter as the new Chairman and ECD of the London office has provoked a reaction, in particular one from Neil Christie, the managing director of Wieden+Kennedy London. Neil ...

As we move into a new decade it’s a good time to think about that important new advertising agency that’s been waiting to emerge for some time. The reason is based on history; each decade we see a new set ...

Yellow Pages is now Yell (gone digital naturally) and it’s taken the brave step of remaking one its classic old commercials, from Abbott Mead Vickers in 1983. Remakes are always a danger of course, although they happen more in films ...

Interesting new commercials are coming thick and fast and Diageo, owner of Guinness and other brands including Johnnie Walker is dipping into its copious pockets again with this ad from AMV’s Irish operation that debuts in Ireland imminently before coming ...

Drinkaware is the body, funded by the booze industry, trying to make customers drink less, or not drink it all at once. It says it’s going to spend £100m over five years through Omnicom-owned agency AMV on this noble cause, ...