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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 ...

My friend George Parker reminds us that, contrary to what we asked here, there has been at least one good wine campaign – Orson Welles for Paul Masson: ‘we will sell no wine before its time.’ In Adscam and also ...

Covid-19 is reported to be driving many of us to drink, so which tipple should we choose? Booze ads are arguably the hardest because you can’t say very much – so most advertisers veer between what they think are trendy, ...

Independent international creative network Leagas Delaney is celebrating 40 years in business with a collection of favourite ads from over the years. Here are two: the first with Anthony Hopkins for Barclays, a period when bankers were surprisingly glamorous figures ...

You can still fly of course (if masochism’s your thing) but the days when BETC Paris could orchestrate all kinds of oh-la-la for Air France seem a lifetime away. Here’s probably the best known from 2015. And one of those ...

Can it really be ten years since Wieden+Kennedy achieved the unlikely feat of making Old Spice and brand owner Procter & Gamble fashionable? But actor and former American footballer Isaiah Mustafa did the trick, thereby setting lots of agency creatives ...

We hear a lot (actually nearly everything) these days about digital, including digital Out of Home, posters as was. But there have always been different ways to use the medium and in back in 1983 London agency FCO decided to ...

Back in the day London agency Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury was the hottest in town: the ultimate ambassadors of the Dave Trott school of advertising. People still remember its Tango ads but this seemingly modest effort for Ronseal from Dave ...