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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...