Is it just us or is UK advertising going all a bit Allen Brady & Marsh? For those of you who weren’t taking an interest in these matters in the 1970s and’80s, ABM was a briefly successful agency set up ...
Read More »Inferno walks a tricky line in new NSPCC ‘Underwear Rule’ child protection campaign
This is a tricky brief: the NSPCC reckons there’s a need post-Jimmy Savile to educate parents on how to talk to/instruct their children that ‘privates are private.’ And, presumably, avoid dodgy-looking B-List celebs working for the BBC. The BBC’s John ...
Read More »Can Droga5 hack it across the world? Is McCann on an upswing and time for BBC types to ‘fess up
The big story of the past two weeks has been uber-successful New York (and Sydney and Auckland) agency Droga5’s decision to venture into further territories; initially London. But do such micro-networks really have a chance of succeeding? BBH tried it ...
Read More »Where are we as we go into the (pre-Christmas) weekend? PG/IPG, Sorrell, Wieden and Murdoch
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its ...
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