Walkers crisps/snacks is running a competition offering £1m to someone who invents a wonderful new flavour so it wheeled in long-time front man, ex-footballer and now TV presenter Gary Lineker to try a few. Such is the conceit, anyway, behind ...
Read More »Is Mercedes finally getting adverts with AMV/BBDO?
What you want these days is an ad that gets people talking – and tweeting and all that stuff – and this ad for Mercedes seems to be doing that, in the UK at least. I have to confess I ...
Read More »David Beckham offers helping hand for Sainsbury’s ‘Active Kids’ TV promotion
Here’s a sweet little ad from AMV/BBDO for UK supermarket Sainsbury’s ‘Active Kids’ promotion. We all seem to be fretting about fat kids (and indeed fat oldies) these days so it’s sensible for Sainsbury to do its bit. Clever idea ...
Read More »Axe and BBH produce a winning ‘Kiss for Peace’
At last we’re getting some brilliant ads! We had Guinness’s ‘Sapeurs’ from AMV/BBDO earlier this week and now it’s ‘Love’ for Unilever spray Axe (makes boys seem vaguely human) from BBH. This is Axe’s Super Bowl offering on February 2. ...
Read More »New Guinness film ‘Sapeurs’ from AMV/BBDO likely to blast its way into the awards books
Here’s a veritable schwerpunkt of an ad, ‘Sapeurs,’ from AMV/BBDO, the latest in its acclaimed ‘Made of More’ campaign for Guinness. My colleague Giles Keeble advised us to keep an eye on this campaign in 2014 and, as ever, he ...
Read More »Dixons moves £50m account from M&C to AMV/BBDO
We’ve noted before that you never get fired for hiring AMV/BBDO (just like IBM in the old days) so Dixons’ new marketing boss Gary Booker (wasn’t he in Procul Harum?) should be OK for a few years. AMV has beaten ...
Read More »Why the undercover Economist is entitled to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s long walk to freedom
The great and good (and doubtless not so good) of world politics are gathered in Soweto’s Soccer City today to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela and The Economist has produced a fitting tribute to the great man, courtesy of agency ...
Read More »UK agencies muddle through (and Sir Martin Sorrell earns eight times more than anyone else)
Kingston Smith has produced its annual survey of UK agencies’ financial performance (including PR agencies), which shows that the industry in the UK grew by 3.5 per cent to reach an income of £1.3bn although operating profits were down a ...
Read More »Havas pays price for Santander sport celebs car crash
It may be a coincidence the Havas London has hired Mark Fairbanks from AMV/BBDO as its new creative director in the week that it’s lost the whopper Santander bank business back to WCRS – but it probably isn’t. For Santander ...
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