Well it must have a decent chance (according to my calculator it’s about 50 per cent) but it finds itself up against Chime’s VCCP, which has made a name for itself recently with hard-selling advertising, the sort that retailers love. ...
Read More »W+K London and Tesco: meaty new steak ad, Finest idents for Downton Abbey and result from TAG
Tesco’s ‘Love Every Mouthful’ campaign is producing hours of fun for the ever-critical UK ad industry as the apparently never-ending stream of would-be yummy food ads pours out of Wieden+Kennedy London. There may be a bit of jealousy here on ...
Read More »British Airways ad review out of BBH may open the door to comeback kings M&C Saatchi
British Airways is reviewing both its creative and direct marketing accounts, worth a supposed £60m, from BBH and OgilvyOne. BA has been with BBH since 2005 although, for most of that time, it seems to have done very little advertising ...
Read More »W+K London enters the barbecue lists for Tesco
Is it possible to produce an un-cheesy ad featuring a barbecue? The wholly unexpected British summer has had agencies defrosting their barbecue scripts from cold storage and Wieden+Kennedy London enters the fray with this, one of the latest in its ...
Read More »Tesco and Wieden+Kennedy bet the ranch on new ‘Love Every Mouthful’ food campaign
Well there it is then, the big one for Tesco from Wieden+Kennedy London: ‘Love Every Mouthful.’ Tesco has decided, rather belatedly some might say, that it’s a grocer and, therefore, should sell itself on the quality of its food. Which ...
Read More »Is there anything that WPP’s ever-acquisitive Hogarth production giant can’t turn its hand to?
Everywhere you turn these days there’s Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP (obviously, it’s just bought a social marketing research company in Bangladesh of all places) and, increasingly, there’s Hogarth. And what, you may ask, is Hogarth? Well here’s what WPP says ...
Read More »New procurement brooms at Tesco in shock decision to review TAG ad production deal
It’s all change at Tesco these days and now the supermarket giant has decided to review the ad production deal it struck with Williams Lea-owned TAG less than a year after it appointed the production company to work alongside new ...
Read More »Worrying times for the marcoms giants as growth judders to a halt in Brazil and China
For years now it’s seemed like a one way bet: expand in the BRICS (the emerging markets of China, Brazil, India and Russia); go further afield to the likes of Indonesia and Vietnam and even, gulp, invest in the Middle ...
Read More ȣ100m Asda set to be the big UK pitch of 2013
We should be grateful for retail advertisers in the UK – they’re not usually part of a huge international business so they review their ad accounts quite regularly while the rest of the world tends to pick and choose from ...
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