More tie-ups, this time between Nokia and Microsoft for their Windows phones. Nokia/Microsoft/Windows does sound a bit like a horse designed by a committee but at least the combo is trying to something a bit different with its advertising. Here’s ...
Read More »Mondelez and Union take a different line in new Christie posh crisps campaign
Posh crisps usually choose to plug their wholesome roots but Mondelez has taken a refreshingly different line in this new TV campaign, ‘Eat it Up,’ for Christie Potato Thins from Union in Toronto. It shows that you can make a ...
Read More »Fallon’s zombie tour de force for Giffgaff, A&E/DDB and Deutsch battle it out for VW creative laurels
***Some interesting ads at the end of this holiday week: here’s a zombie opus from Fallon UK for mobile network Giffgaff – whose point of difference seems to be that its members help each other. Takes all sorts I suppose. ...
Read More »Droga5 announces start-up team for London launch
Droga5, which announced last week that it was setting up a global network (it currently operates in New York and Sydney) has chosen London as its gateway to Europe; poaching Kevin Dundas (right) from 180 Amsterdam as its CEO and ...
Read More »Paddy Power and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un home in on the Stadium of Light
There’s no such thing as good taste where Paddy Power is concerned and the Irish turf accountant has excelled himself with this ad/online film supposing that North Korean leader (and fruitcake) Kim Jong-un (that’s him, not Paddy Power) has taken ...
Read More »Big sigh of relief at RPA as it hangs on to (most of) $1bn Honda US creative account
Conventional wisdom says that it’s not worth repitching for an account because it’s bound to go and all you’ll be left with is a big bill. But maybe that’s wrong: LA-based RPA has hung on to most of the $1bn ...
Read More »Mother wins $240m Burger King and debuts with spots for anything other than burgers
Well that’s what they do these days – burgers bring in the punters but coffee etc is the message you want to send out. Which is what Mother New York is doing in its first campaign for Burger King since ...
Read More »Microsoft unveils new ‘no agency’ Surface campaign
All Microsoft is saying is that this launch ad for its new Surface iPad rival is directed by John Chu (presumably he wouldn’t do it without a credit). And that it’s nothing to do with Crispin Porter which is supposed ...
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