Tag Archives: charity

Adam&eveDDB’s giant ‘Alex’ dramatises homeless plight for charity Crisis

Out of Home installations are playing a bigger part this Christmas and adam&eveDDB and homeless charity Crisis have joined the trend with with a “hyper-real” 4.3m sculpture – ‘Alex’ – by Sophie de Oliveria Barata for Creative Giants that uses ...

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Sarah Lund sweaters up for Save The Children Xmas ad

Whatever happened to The Killing’s Sarah Lund? Last seen she was legging it to Iceland (I think) after overstepping the mark somewhat in the pursuit of truth and justice. But she’s back in this spoof by Contagious for Save The ...

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UK ad folk driven mad by stress says new NABS survey

A study commissioned by the UK’s NABS advertising charity has revealed that a quarter of workers (23 per cent) in the creative and media sector find their working environment overly stressful most of the time – and two-thirds (65 per ...

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Canada’s Cossette tries to sharpen up charity Amnesty International

Agencies tend to do good work for charities and (let’s be polite) less good work for businesses – while they should be capable of doing equally good work for both. But charities are big clients these days (media agencies love ...

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Is Pedigree’s new ‘dog rescue’ campaign just another example of the UK’s conflicted doggy emotions?

All advertisers like to be on the side of the angels so Mars-owned Pedigree Petfoods is donating a million ‘free’ meals to rescued dogs this year. And here’s the appropriately gritty AMV/BBDO ad to launch the campaign. The campaign also ...

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