Tag Archives: Asda

Asda has an interesting selection of agencies pitching for its UK ad account currently at Omnicom’s AMV BBDO (which is repitching.) It’s up against VCCP Blue (described as VCCP’s “specialist advertising arm”), WPP’s Wunderman Thompson, Interpublic’s FCB Inferno and a ...

Another day, another – on the face of it – mystifying creative review. Just Eat is reviewing its business at McCann, after seemingly dominating the airwaves all year (apart from the NHS of course.) Maybe they’ve gone off the somewhat ...

Asda is reviewing its ad account at AMV BBDO – which won’t surprise anyone as it produced the clunker of 2020 with its dire campaign featuring one Sunny and his family – with an estimated media spend of £100m. It’s ...

Better tread carefully here; Asda’s Sunny is back (Sunny somewhat divides opinion according to the comments we received after his last effort) courtesy of AMV BBDO presumably. Offering an ‘Asda Price Christmas’ amid festooning his house with those annoying garish ...

The Uk’s Asda – which owner Walmart is trying to spruce up for a partial sale or flotation – is taking discounters Aldi and Lidll (and Tesco) full on by bringing back its “pocket tap” price campaign, harking back to ...

Mother’s Day is coming up soon (I’ve been forgetting it for decades – not sure exactly when) and here’s a lively effort from AMV BBDO for Asda. Part of a ‘Don’t Compromise’ campaign which shows promise. Asda, now owned by ...

You do wonder if the management of big companies ever communicate with each other. Asda launched its glittery new Christmas ad from AMV BBDO on Saturday, at exactly the time thousands of workers faced the chop if they didn’t sign ...

It’s all change at the UK’s biggest agency by billings AMV BBDO with long-time CCO and chairman Paul Brazier to be succeeded as CCO by Alex Grieve (Grieve’s partner Adrian Rossi has gone off to Grey) and a new management ...

To nobody’s great surprise the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked the attempted £7bn merger of Sainsbury’s and Walmart-owned Asda, saying: “It’s our responsibility to protect the millions of people who shop at Sainsbury’s and Asda every week. ...