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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Millennials in the US aren’t as generous with their organ donations as they should be apparently (they probably spend too much time on their bloody phones) so organ donor charity Donate Life is running a new campaign by The Martin ...