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Those pranksters at Droga5 are having more fun with the Super Bowl: last year it was a spin on Newcastle Brown not being able to afford to $4m to buy an add (it can, it’s owned by Heineken) – this ...

We weren’t too impressed by Droga5’s ‘Independence Eve’ effort for Newcastle Brown starring Stephen Merchant (D5 is imagining that the Brits won what became known as the War of Independence) but here’s a lively effort featuring a street interviewer. Are ...

Imagine if the Brits had won what became known as the American War of Independence – such is the conceit behind Droga5’s latest effort for Newcastle Brown’s ‘No Bollocks’ campaign (timed for July 3/4). This one starring Ricky Gervais’ old ...

Droga5 (which seems to be in every other story this week, for good or, occasionally, ill) is happily spoofing away for Newcastle Brown, the supposedly minnow beer brand that can’t afford a Super Bowl spot. Here they’re taking a pot ...

Well that’s a relief – Droga5 is going to the Super Bowl after all. Last week the agency launched a spoof campaign for Newcastle Brown, bemoaning the fact that the plucky British brand (which is actually owned by Heineken) couldn’t ...

Pity poor Droga5 and its cash-strapped client Newcastle Brown, a plucky beer brewed in England’s also cash-strapped north east. They had all these good ideas for an ad on the Super Bowl (a week on Sunday) but lacked just one ...

  In just seven years Droga (above), 45 and one of his six children raised in Australia, has created an agency that ranks with BBH and Wieden+Kennedy (both 30 years old) as one of the best in the world, one ...

Trevor Beattie of London agency BMB reckons ads in the future will be about five seconds, Twitter’s Vine seems to be doing quite nicely with its six seconds or less vids. Droga5 in New York is showing what you can ...

Droga5, which announced last week that it was setting up a global network (it currently operates in New York and Sydney) has chosen London as its gateway to Europe; poaching Kevin Dundas (right) from 180 Amsterdam as its CEO and ...