Virgin Atlantic dumps leggy lovelies for B2B pitch in first campaign from new agency adam&eveDDB

January 3, 2015 Comments Off on Virgin Atlantic dumps leggy lovelies for B2B pitch in first campaign from new agency adam&eveDDB

When Virgin Atlantic moved from RKCR/Y&R to adam&eveDDB there was something akin to outrage in the UK agency business. Why on earth were they moving? What was wrong with VA’s (undeniably enticing) red-suited leggy lovelies? As this coincided with the ...

Argos drops extra-terrestrials for ‘Get Set Go’ in first CHI campaign for new marketing director Vowles

October 13, 2014 Comments Off on Argos drops extra-terrestrials for ‘Get Set Go’ in first CHI campaign for new marketing director Vowles

Last year Argos concluded a review of its account with long-serving agency CHI & Partners and decided – to stay with long-serving agency CHI. Now it’s back with a new campaign from the agency to unlock pre-Christmas wallets, dropping the ...

BETC tries doggy style for Diet Coke hunk’s pets

October 28, 2013 Comments Off on BETC tries doggy style for Diet Coke hunk’s pets

The dear old UK was ever a nation of contrasts and, while half the country is concerned about ‘heat or eat,’ the nation’s pets seem to be more pampered than ever. Andrew Cooper, the model who appears in BETC’s ‘Hunk’ ...

Confident Lloyds celebrates going it alone with blowUP outdoor campaign

September 27, 2013 Comments Off on Confident Lloyds celebrates going it alone with blowUP outdoor campaign

It’s almost as though Lloyds Bank is feeling a sense of relief at being Lloyds Bank again, not Lloyds TSB as it was before it shunted off 632 branches into newly-independent TSB. The relief, of course, may have something to ...

Bacardi picks McCann vets to helm new US ads

May 20, 2013 Comments Off on Bacardi picks McCann vets to helm new US ads

Bacardi has turned to agency veterans Jeff Weiss and Paul Opperman of OW and Lee Daley former chief strategy officer of McCann, to try to revive Bacardi in the US. The drinks giant recently appointed BETC London to handle its ...

Andrex bamboozles us with bamboo and CGI

July 2, 2012 Comments Off on Andrex bamboozles us with bamboo and CGI

Andrex has been flooding the airwaves in the UK with this ad by JWT for its new ‘eco’ line. On a creative level it shows once again the remorseless rise of CGI, substituting animated versions of the brand’s famous puppies ...

Sony’s new Experia phone gets the Linus Karlsson treatment from McCann

June 29, 2012 Comments Off on Sony’s new Experia phone gets the Linus Karlsson treatment from McCann

Sony is one of the business school classic case histories: the bigger it gets, the worse it becomes and the more money it loses. So it could do with a bit of help and new agency McCann New York is ...

Bad boy advertiser Go Daddy moves to Deutsch

June 14, 2012 Comments Off on Bad boy advertiser Go Daddy moves to Deutsch

Deutsch New York has been awarded one of the year’s most intriguing tasks, US domain name and web hosting company Go Daddy which has been aggravating a big chunk of the US with its home-produced ads for seven years now. ...

Angela Bellotte’s seductive motion scores for Samsung and BETC London

May 28, 2012 Comments Off on Angela Bellotte’s seductive motion scores for Samsung and BETC London

BETC London seems to have scored mightily on YouTube with this sexy number, ‘Seductive Motion,’ for Samsung, demonstrating the virtues of its ‘motion control’ smart TVs thanks to the unwitting efforts of Victoria’s Secrets model Angela Bellotte. As you’d expect ...