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Lloyds Banking Group and, by extension its ad agency adam&eveDDB, is getting it in the neck for its ‘By your side’ ad campaign, the one with the black horse/horses. A majority of the UK public think the only side Lloyds ...

Here’s the new Halifax ad from adam&eveDDB, a campaign that began with Warner Brothers’ Top Cat and then the Flintstones and has now moved on to Thunderbirds’ (I think) Lady Penelope and her long-suffering butler Parker. Who discovers financial independence ...

Adam&eveDDB is back with the second instalment of its new campaign for Halifax, featuring Warner Brothers cartoon stars. First up we had Top Cat and now it’s the turn of The Flintstones, enthusing about Halifax’s generous offer to bung you ...

April was far from the cruellest month for ads, particularly from UK agencies. After a slow start to the year there was a rush of good to great ads in April: JWT’s Rembrandt recreation by its Amsterdam office, Martini from ...

Halifax has been regaling us for years with not-so-heavenly choirs hymning the praises of its various offers. It was probably quite hard to change the theme to something more adventurous as the bank (now owned by Lloyds) recovered from the ...

Halifax is bigging up its selection as the UK’s best children’s account provider (by whom and on what grounds? with a new campaign ‘Charlie Clarke’, through adam&eveDDB. Financial services voiceovers are interesting aren’t they? For decades the default option has ...

Two years ago or so Omnicom shelled out a maximum £60m for London indie agency Adam & Eve (of John Lewis fame, itself a breakaway from Y&R). A&E was merged with DDB in London, one of the key Omnicom agency ...

I suppose poor old DLKW Lowe was bound to get it in the neck from Morrisons – the UK supermarket group has been struggling to keep pace with discounters Asda, Aldi and Lidl and now Tesco has entered that frame ...

Should we feel sad or glad for them? Viewed one way, Adam & Eve has just paid itself an awful lot of money to acquire a decent car account, Volkswagen. Looked at in another, what is arguably the UK’s most ...