Tag Archives: MAA blast from the past

There are an awful of of things you can’t do or show in ads these days – maybe that’s why the outlook sometimes seems a bit dreary – and humour in hospital (as opposed to the ancient “humour in uniform”) ...

This was one of the last Axe/Lynx ads before Unilever tried to make it go all Dove – rather missing the point. Is it deplorably sexist – not really. ‘Use in Moderation’ prevents any such thing surely. No idea who ...

Heinz has been making family-friendly ads since well into the last century: sometimes there’s the temptation to twist the formula as far as it will go and then a bit. Here’s a UK effort from 2002 (no idea who did ...

Would Kia try this again just a few years later? Its 2017 Super Bowl effort from David&Goliath deploys slapstick to winning effect with Melissa McCarthy as the hapless eco-warrior suffering all sorts of indignities. For the Kia Niro, an eco-friendly ...

What a difference a decade or so makes. Back in 2009 M&S was riding a wave under boss Stuart Rose and marketing whizz Steve Sharp. It celebrated its 125th anniversary with Twiggy harking back to its launch as a penny ...

Not that there’s anything wrong with it but this was the first from agency adam&eve (before it became adam&eveDDB) back in 2009. Doubt that either agency or client expected the annual campaign to be such a big thing. But this ...

Christmas ads in the UK used to be an annual battle between adam&eveDDB for John Lewis and AMV BBDO for Sainsbury’s. Back in 2015 AMV, which spent a year working on these things, tied up with children’s author Judith Kerr ...

Much speculation about what kind of ads will work – and be welcomed by a battered population – this Christmas. We all need cheering up a bit but the party gear will probably stay in the wardrobe. Much of the ...

Boase Massimi Pollitt (now part of the adam&eveDDB DNA) was arguably the best TV agency: its legendary ads have previously appeared in this slot including Cadbury Smash ‘Martians,’ some for John Smiths and Pepsi. This is somewhat later – from ...