Under-fire Heathrow airport has appointed St Luke’s as its lead creative agency following a four-way pitch handled by Observatory International. Heathrow’s last major advertising was through Havas. Heathrow has been widely criticised for post-pandemic baggage handling problems which have resulted ...
Read More »Havas US and London finds winning Christmas stories for Barnes & Noble and Heathrow
Bookseller Barnes & Noble has a new ad agency, Havas North America, and the retailer is going into battle against Amazon again, showing how its staff can find you the right book. A blindingly obvious offer from a proper bookseller ...
Read More »Rose-tinted Heathrow brings back (more) Christmas bears
More bloody Christmas bears, this time the return of Heathrow’s popular duo courtesy of Havas London. Still can’t understand why Heathrow should want to advertise at Christmas – you don’t choose an airport do you, instead of a flight? Anyway, ...
Read More »Heathrow ad account set to land at Havas
London airport hub Heathrow is understood to have appointed Havas Worldwide as its new creative and marketing agency. Havas pitched with below-the-line shop Havas Helia against adam&eveDDB with DDB’s Rapp and M&C Saatchi with Lida. Heathrow is currently engaged in ...
Read More »Cheil UK scores digital first for Samsung on new Decaux Grandview poster at Heathrow
Cheil UK has bagged the new JC Decaux digital ‘Grandview’ at Heathrow, the first digital advertising exterior at the airport, for client Samsung. Samsung will run a number of campaigns on the huge new site over the next year. Samsung ...
Read More »British Airways ad review out of BBH may open the door to comeback kings M&C Saatchi
British Airways is reviewing both its creative and direct marketing accounts, worth a supposed £60m, from BBH and OgilvyOne. BA has been with BBH since 2005 although, for most of that time, it seems to have done very little advertising ...
Read More »Will new Virgin Atlantic boss Craig Kreeger shake up the company’s Branson-style advertising?
Virgin Atlantic, which we still think of as Sir Richard Branson’s airline, has appointed American Airlines customer boss Craig Kreeger (left) as its new CEO. Kreeger succeeds the highly-regarded Steve Ridgway who has left after 27 years, in part because ...
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