Tag Archives: music

Music can still do the business for an ad campaign, as it clearly has for Mercedes-Benz’s new Online Showroom (a good idea in itself.) No idea who the agency is (new one Publicis?) but whoever exhumed Johnnie Taylor’s 1969 effort ...

This week it’s been the BBC Six Music Festival in Glasgow. OK, fair enough. So most of Radio Six has been devoted to this event, including endless airtime about how wonderful Glasgow, its musicians and Radio Six are for discovering ...

Was trying to find an ad with the late great Chuck Berry (one of the inventors of rock’n roll) in it. This is all I could come up with – for Diet Coke. ‘Strewth, what a waste. The agency should ...

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 ...

Saatchi and Saatchi’s New directors’ Showcase, showcased on Wednesday, is one of the highlights of the Canes Lions festival and this year’s – called ‘Just For Hits’ as music played a leading role in the entries – was as good ...

The UK isn’t a very charitable place at the moment with potential donors’ incomes under pressure and wide-ranging benefit cuts leading some politicians to describe life under the Coalition Government as a ‘brutal’ rather than ‘big’ society (the latter being ...

Beyonce has signed up with Pepsi, part of its answer to Coca-Cola’s attempt to take over the music business. She’ll be the centrepiece of its Super Bowl extravaganza and, no doubt, ‘brand ambassador’ all over the place. Well fifty million ...

As well as Sir Martin Sorrell, Lord ‘Seb’ Coe and Sir John Hegarty but how can you compete with those three (it’s the retired Brazilian soccer star not the Portuguese Real Madrid version)? Other speakers at Cannes this summer include ...

Gosh this is a bit worrying, coming from one of adland’s foremost optimists Kevin Roberts, worldwide boss of Saatchi & Saatchi and inventor of ‘Lovemarks.’ But fear not, Kevin thinks we’re moving into a new stage, away from ‘interruption’ to ...