Has Cannes chosen its Creative Advertiser of the Year yet? Think that’s what it’s called. Heineken must be a contender: Publicis Italia has produced a string of cheery ads, including this one which celebrates a ‘Lockdown Love Story,’ without pushing ...
Read More »BBH Singapore hits the animation heights in new Absolut global campaign
You never know what you’re going to get from Absolut but the global vodka brand is good at sidestepping the restrictions on booze advertising, assisted in no small measure by BBH Singapore. Now it’s looking forward to a Covid-stricken world ...
Read More »Lockdown creativity: David Madrid lifts spirits for Pond’s
Oily skin can spoil even the most promising romance, or so David Madrid would have us believe in this diverting new effort for Unilever’s Pond’s Men. Unilever has upped its budget in the pandemic and it’s good to see the ...
Read More »L’Oreal and Virtue launch first virtual make-up range
A lockdown world is becoming like a virtual gaming experience, you live everything online. Now its make-up too, with Signature Faces from L’Oreal with the help of Vice agency Virtue. The Sinature Faces collection was co-created by L’Oréal Paris global ...
Read More »Post-lockdown creativity: Google’s heavyweights almost succeed in cheering us up
Google UK is running a campaign to support local businesses by encouraging Google reviews. Here’s boxer Anthony Joshua hymning the (possibly) unlikely environs of Golders Green where he was brought up. By Redwood BBDO. And actress Sheridan Smith in the ...
Read More »Post-lockdown creativity: Glenfiddich and Patek Philippe
William Grant’s single malt Glenfiddich is going global with a new campaign by London creative agency Space – ‘Where Next?’ Something we’re all asking ourselves these days. So we have a stag that’s lost its antlers cruising the high street ...
Read More »Post-lockdown creativity: Other debuts for Bloom & Wild
Mother’s new agency Other is off to a flyer for launch client online florist Bloom & Wild, with a new line ‘Care Wildly’ highlighting the raw emotions that can lie behind a gift of flowers. In the pandemic there’s an ...
Read More »Post-lockdown creativity: Royal British Legion and Humane Society bang the charity drum
We may have to review our post-lockdown creativity category at some stage as so-called “local” lockdowns (some involving large chunks of various countries, big cities especially) creep upon us. But lockdown is the backdrop of much of the advertising we ...
Read More »Post-lockdown creativity: Fistful of Bourbon features Goop-reading gunslingers
Scotch whisky maker William Grant is having a crack at the bourbon market with new brand Fistful of Bourbon and the launch campaign from drinks specialist Quaker City Mercantile and Saturday Night Live director Paul Briganti through Tool of North ...
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