Tag Archives: norway

We’re off on our travels again, to Norway this time for a campaign for Volkswagen’s Trailer Assist from agency TRY/APT in Oslo. ‘Trailer Assist’ normally wouldn’t get its own campaign but maybe trailers are big in Norway. So it’s a ...

We observed earlier that the gay/lesbian row in Russia, highlighted by the Winter Olympics in Sochi, would be more fun that people falling over on ice skates – and so it’s proving. Now we have Norwegian sports retailer XXL and ...

To Norway now where London indie agency Green Cave People – founded by ex-DLKW/Lowe creative Malcolm Green and ex-Lowe manager Marc Cave – is running a whopper campaign (OK, this is Norway) for Telenor, the world’s sixth-biggest telecoms company it ...

I’m deeply indebted to the international Epica creative advertising awards – on which I served as a juror – for giving me nightmares. Every year, the awards betray certain cultural themes – performing dogs, hyper-animated babies, whatever – that have ...

*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal framework preventing the bastards from just ignoring ...

Aris Theophilakis, creative director of Futatsu Industries in Oslo (they sound a pretty cosmopolitan lot over there) has sent me this rather wonderful film for OBOS, Norway’s biggest building society. OBOS majors on building and selling affordable homes (we could ...

Talking of Scandinavia (which we were, Norway anyway) ambitious network M&C Saatchi Worldwide is opening an office in Sweden, its 27th around the world. The new agency will be headed by CEO Bjarte Eide (far right) with co-creative directors Martin ...

This Norwegian ad from XXL sports gear has been pulled from prime-time TV because it’s too scary. Actually the zombies are quite scary, not to mention the big fat bloke with the fishing rod. It’s a bit like Shaun of ...

We’ve complained here before about the miserabilist tone of much charity advertising. There’s, like, nothing positive in them or even, dare one say it, fun. Many readers think we’re mad of course (probably rightly). This is more like it, from ...