Tag Archives: nokia

Thursday 3rd November 2016: HMD Global, the company founded in May 2016 to create a new generation of Android-powered Nokia smartphones, feature phones and tablets, has appointed Mother as its lead global agency. The appointment follows a global pitch. HMD ...

It’s the year of, among other things, ‘selfies’ and Nokia (the phone business is now owned by Microsoft) is rowing in on the trend with this campaign, ‘Pass It On,’ for the Nokia 1020 trying to enlist users in 30 ...

Nir Wegrzyn is CEO of award-winning design agency BrandOpus. He was managing director of design agency JKR for ten years and before that a senior executive at FCB and Publicis. In the first of a series of articles he looks ...

Much scratching of heads about Microsoft’s decision to fork out $7.2bn for Nokia’s phones business – it’s an obvious thing to do but they had that business already as the only profitable phone that Nokia is selling is the new ...

Vertu mobile phones are a pretty strange idea. Made by Nokia, the British-based company is now privately owned and still with us even though its phones sell for about £3,000 and sharply upwards. But the owners have obviously decided they ...

** Moneysupermarket.com is getting a bit twitchy at Mother, we hear. The ‘Epic’ campaign has never been one of our faves; but Mother is a formidable agency. So why not just sit down and come up with something good? **Nokia, ...

Windows 8, coming just two years after its predecessor, is the biggest bet that Microsoft has ever made. A decade ago Microsoft had the tech market signed up; everybody bought its ever more frequent upgrades for even more money even ...

One of the hardest jobs in adland is plugging a piece of technology that the techosphere (which increasingly means most target consumers) has already decided is pants. Wieden+Kennedy in London lost the Nokia account last year when, despite some massive ...

McCann Erickson London chairman and CCO Linus Karlsson (same job in New York) has advanced his hoped-for creative revolution at the Interpublic-owned network by hiring Rob Doubal and Lolly Thomson from Wieden+Kennedy London as executive creative directors (pictured by Campaign, ...