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Euros football ads are all over the place now, none quite as audacious as this effort from 2003 (I think) for Nike Shox from Wieden+Kennedy. Featuring that forgotten phenomenon, a streaker. Originally intended for an NFL setting, moved to the ...

Were ads better then than they are now? Some were no doubt, others maybe not.. It was a less woke world too, as these demonstrate. Here’s Allen Brady & Marsh from 1983 for the UK National Dairy Council (ABM was ...

British Airways is back on the airwaves with a workmanlike effort from Ogilvy. Once upon a time BA was the blue riband of UK, maybe global, ad accounts. Now Ogilvy could hardly have essayed this in a pandemic, even had ...

I see that legendary CDP copywriter (also commercials director and celebrated jazz drummer) Terry Lovelock has died at 84. In adland Lovelock will be remembered chiefly for two things: the Heineken campaign and his extraordinary generosity with the CDP agency’s ...

Will we be trekking down to the south of France in June for Cannes? If those silly Europeans don’t stop rubbishing the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, doubt it. Relations ‘twixt the Brits and French seem to have deteriorated somewhat post-Brexit – ...

Laurence Green writes today about ISBA’s new “collective trust initiative” recommending “making advertising welcome in people’s homes.” Actually this seems an update of Frank Lowe’s maxim that advertising was about “not just achieving sales success, but ensuring any advertiser entering ...

We’ve described recently the move from ambitious ads to digital-friendly content, something that has has greatly diminished the influence of creative agencies (for better some might say.) There’ve been times though when a little editing in the cause of economy ...

This is certainly a curiosity. Most people recall Eminem for Chrysler in Wieden+Kennedy’s 2011 Super Bowl ‘Born of fire’ spot. Here’s another ambitious effort from Chrysler on the same patriotic theme three years later. With Bob Dylan, no less. Agency ...

It’s the Super Bowl soon, maybe a somewhat reduced one in ad terms although enough biggies will surely pile in. This is a classic for McDonald’s from Leo Burnett in 1993. Apparently the brief was simply to use Michael Jordan ...