The New York One Show’s Best of Show award has gone to Cross-Platform winner Refugee Nation for Amnesty International from Ogilvy New York. The campaign celebrates 2016’s first Olympics team for refugees. Event organiser One Club CEO Kevin Swanepoel says: ...
Read More »Clickon’s Benjamin Potter: Air Max – 30 year ad highlights
March 26 marks Nike Air Max “Day” it seems (we thought it was Mother’s Day – how last year), marking the 30th birthday of the famous brand. So Benjamin Potter (left), co-founder and creative director of sports content specialist Clickon ...
Read More »Nike challenges cultural conventions with brave new film about Muslim female athletes
We’ve noted before that 2017 seems to be turning into year of political ads, political defined loosely. But is it so brave to say you’re on the side of inclusivity and all the rest of it? In the case of ...
Read More »Nike’s new ad wades into equality debate – but will that change ever come?
We know it already, 2017’s going to be the year of ‘political’ ads from brands (thanks Donald) and here’s a biggie: star-studded ‘Equality’ from Nike by Wieden+Kennedy which aired at the Grammys on Sunday. Soundtrack is Sam Cook’s ‘Change is ...
Read More »Can Nike overturn mobile phone mania?
According to Nike most of us (not me I hope) spend ten hours a day which equals 35 years of our life peering at a smartphone as opposed to doing something useful like running. Hmm, don’t do much of that ...
Read More »W+K pulls a blockbuster campaign out of the hat for under pressure Nike
Nike is coming under pressure from Under Armour and its agency Droga5 in the US, and, maybe, across the world. Which must have been a poser for Nike agency Wieden+Kennedy too. Nike has been a 30-year foundation client for W+K, ...
Read More »More Maria Sharapova for her thousands of MAA fans
The tidal wave of views we had for our story about Maria Sharapova’s brief spell in an agency (she was an intern for a week at VCCP) proves conclusively that she’s already the most famous person in advertising – sorry ...
Read More »Will Nike’s ‘Da Da Ding’ from Wieden+Kennedy tackle sexism in India as well as sell shoes?
India and the sub-continent generally (as we rather patronisingly call it) has been the scene of some of the more distressing examples of gender inequality – can a brand do something about it? Nike and agency Wieden+Kennedy India are giving ...
Read More »W+K scores for Nike with Euro 2016 Ronaldo epic
Euro 2016 kicks off tonight and where’s there’s football there’s Nike Football – as someone else almost used to say. So Wieden+Kennedy (a collaborative effort between various offices presumably) is back with its longest Nike commercial so far, featuring Cristiano ...
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