Dang, those gals are taking over everything. Land O’Lakes is a US member-owned agribusiness and a new campaign from The Martin Agency is hymning the 30 per cent of US farmers who are female. So they’ve re-written Old MacDonald had ...
Read More »Alexander’s surprise departure result of staff complaint
It appears that the surprise departure of creative boss Joe Alexander (below) from The Martin Agency was the result of a sexual harassment complaint. Martin is owned by Interpublic. Martin says: The past year has revealed some painful but important ...
Read More »Joe Alexander quits The Martin Agency
Here’s a funny one – funny peculiar that is. The Martin Agency’s CCO Joe Alexander (below) has abruptly departed after 26 years in various roles at the agency, with only a terse announcement to mark his departure. The affable and ...
Read More »Martin Agency finds the poetry in animal feed appeal
Mars animal feed brand Purina Mills is donating a dollar per pack (bale?) to look after retired horses so this, in a way, is a B2B ad. The Martin Agency usually finds a way with the most unpromising task and ...
Read More »Martin changes the guard for Geico at Buckingham Palace
Do you remember “dress down Fridays” in the UK? Used to be hilarious seeing what City types were wearing: more effort went into choosing their “casual” outfits than their be-suited normality and a right load of be-chino’d berks they looked. ...
Read More »Now Martin launches a triangle solo for Geico
The Martin Agency in Richmond – and its client Geico – are the undisputed masters of YouTube ads and here’s a new, uncharacteristically in your face iteration. Making an impact though. See the YouTube comments from percussionists everywhere. MAA creative ...
Read More »Is this horse opera from Martin tearjerker of the season?
Purina Mills is a US animal feeds company (once owned by Ralston Purina) and it sponsors A Home For Every Horse which connects unwanted horses (of whom there are millions across the world) with new owners. One reason being that ...
Read More »Martin Agency serves up tasty ‘Dine With Rana’
Giovanni Rana’s Rana Group makes fresh pasta as well as running nearly 30 restaurants worldwide, mostly in Italy but with outposts in london and New York. It supplies some of Sainsbury’s own label products, which are actually pretty good. Now ...
Read More »Martin Agency opens a new box of old tricks for Kayak
Kayak is a nifty site that searches best deals for fares, hotels and car hire. It recently hired The Martin Agency New York and here’s the first campaign, out of the award-winning GEICO songbook of short, snappy ads. Has someone ...
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