Tag Archives: Jenson Button

It’s a funny old business that Formula 1. All season we’ve had McLaren Honda bringing up the rear and poor driver Jenson Button plodding back to the pits. But Jenson doesn’t seem short of work: he’s been retained for next ...

This campaign from Santander is hardly likely to feature in anyone’s Desert Island Ads but this latest spot is the most recalled ad on UK television at the moment according to Marketing. So what do we have? A celebrity in ...

The mighty ExxonMobil is offering a day at the motor races to some lucky petrol head in a competition so AMV/BBDO has been charged with making an ad for it. Groan, groan they all went – the Mobil-sponsored team in ...

Here’s the good news: we’re making a big TV campaign! And the bad – we’ve got to use the client’s ‘brand ambassadors.’ And such was clearly the fate of Havas Worldwide in the UK (formerly the agency known as Euro ...

The UK-based McLaren motor racing empire is looking for an ad agency to handle a global advertising campaign for its new range of high end sports cars according to a report in Campaign. McLaren Automotive, which has so far produced ...

WPP has had its tanks parked on Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s lawn (the one displaying its £47m Vodafone UK client) since JWT lost the business in 2006 and BBH lost its global brief last year. And in May this year WPP-owned ...

Not that AMV/BBDO will be complaining, landing the first Cannes Lions effectiveness award for its Gold Lion winner last year for PepsiCo’s Walkers Crisps with an opus starring racing driver Jenson Button. The first 2011 effectiveness awards at Cannes were ...

Clients, marketers, are pretty sensible most of the time but show them a sportsman and their common sense goes through the window as rapidly as Lewis Hamilton drives off the grid (usually into someone else). Santander UK has announced a ...