IKEA’s ‘Wonderful Everyday’ from Mother is a wonderful campaign but is it running out of steam? Here’s the latest featuring a lion relaxing in an IKEA living room (lions relax for 18 hours a day it seems, only springing into ...
Read More »Acne campaign transforms IKEA’s blue bag
Agency Acne is back on the IKEA case (didn’t think they called companies names like that any more but I suppose it gets you top of the Google searches) with another opus for the retailer’s famed although hardly glamorous blue ...
Read More »IKEA unveils a different battle of the bedroom
Mother’s back for IKEA, this time with the WonderfulEveryNight (as opposed to EveryDay) showing us all how to ‘Win at Sleeping.’ Seems to be a national obsession these days: this morning on Today there was a not-very-convincing expert telling us ...
Read More »Best ads of 2016: TalkTalk from CHI and two crackers from Mother win October
It’s amazing that ISP TalkTalk is still with us, given some of its past disasters (mostly self inflicted). CEO Dido Harding is still talking the talk though, succeeding in annoying BT’s Gavin Patterson no end with her (mostly justified) criticisms ...
Read More »Mother hires Ogilvy’s Falusi for New York, lights up the screen for IKEA
Mother New York has hired Ogilvy New York CCO Corinna Falusi as CCO and partner. Paul Malmstrom, founding partner and CCO at Mother New York, is moving up to creative chairman. Falusi (left), who became New York CCO at Ogilvy ...
Read More »Bare-bottomed Chinese shopper embarrasses IKEA
Much excitement in China and virally over a bare-bottomed Chinese female shopper in IKEA, the Beijing branch it seems. IKEA has rushed out a statement saying it wasn’t them trying to drum up some publicity, emphasising its commitment to a ...
Read More »Mother unveils another everyday wonder for IKEA
There are some weird and (often) wonderful things coming out of Mother these days. Its ‘Beds’ commercial for IKEA’s ‘Wonderful Everyday’ campaign last year was indeed wonderful; here’s the latest instalment. Scarcely a flat pack in sight – in fact, ...
Read More »IKEA puts $444m global media up for review
IKEA has joined the ever-growing list of global advertisers reviewing their media accounts, putting its $444m media business up for review. Across the world IKEA uses media agencies from all the big marcoms companies but the agency in the frame ...
Read More »Buzzman reveals the naked truth for IKEA
Most of life’s big decisions are taking around a table, according to IKEA, and Paris agency Buzzman deftly illustrates this in a new campaign – ‘Naturiste’ – that shows a young lady with a delicate decision to make (or avoid). ...
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