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I am trying to remember when I first got excited by an ad rather than advertising. I went to JWT straight from university and I was simply excited by the atmosphere especially when, to a large extent, it was created ...

I know this feature is typically reserved for the legends of traditional advertising, but my career has been anything but traditional and I wanted to reflect that in my choice. The interactive music videos of Arcade Fire have always been ...

Back in 1996 this was, indeed, a Grand Prix winner when TV ads ruled that sunny roost. It’s a spin on JWT’s long-running ‘do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?’ but From Ammirati Puris Lintas in ...

WPP’s UK agencies took a powder according to the holding company’s recent half time 2020 numbers, down 23.5% in April, May and June. Whether or not this is a structural problem or just an echo of the tumbling UK economy ...

Nothing says the 1980s quite like Madonna (now 62) and here’s famed US director Joe Pytka for Pepsi in 1989, featuring the ever-controversial songstress in reflective mode. Caused quite a stir at the time it seems ‘cos of all the ...

Saatchi and Saatchi Garland-Compton as it was back in 1978, as the brothers embarked on their quest for world domination with the reverse takeover of the rather bigger Garland-Compton. In the intervening 40-odd years in the UK we’ve had endless ...

You don’t automatically associate Germany with humour but it plays a big part in Hamburg agency Jung von Matt’s varied repertoire. Among the clients are EIS.de, purveyor of sex toys and other delights (who’ve had a pretty good lockdown we ...

In these trying times for newspapers it’s easy to forget that they were one prized ad agency accounts (difficult admittedly as journalists and creatives rarely saw eye to eye.) The Sun used to have a whole studio in central London ...

When the late Alan Parker left CDP to launch a production company with producer Alan Marshall he picked up lots of work from his old firm (who also bankrolled the nascent company.) One such task was a seemingly modest thirty ...