Mortgage advertising is usually a case of the bland leading the blind, probably because most of it’s in the hands of banks who are always in the dock over something or other and are therefore disinclined or unable to say ...
Read More »Just Eat looks for new UK creative agency
Just Eat, the UK quoted company that takes online orders fro independent takeaway restaurants, is looking for a new creative agency after parting with The Red Brick Road which handled the business for two years. Before that the account was ...
Read More »The Red Brick Road wins easyProperty sales launch
The Red Brick Road has won online lettings agency easyProperty as it prepares to enter the residential home sales market later this year. TRBR won the business, which includes PR as well as advertising, following a pitch. EasyProperty’s pricing model ...
Read More »The Red Brick Road’s David Miller: the best ads of 2014
Miller (left) started his career with the Ogilvy Group working on the EMEA American Express account. After a few years in the UK, he moved to Asia and ran the regional marketing accounts for Nestle and DHL, based in Kuala ...
Read More »New Soreen campaign from resilient Red Brick Road, A&E SSE ad divides opinion, another Virgin Media fail
***Venerable British malt loaf brand Soreen (a squishy European-type bread thingie that you spread with butter – I rather like it) is running a new £3m campaign through The Red Brick Road. Which sounds like quite a lot but its ...
Read More »M&C hires Tesco creative Jason Lawes for top new role
M&C Saatchi has hired Red Brick Road founder and creative partner Jason Lawes (left) as a creative director from The Red Brick Road, to work with fellow CD Mark Goodwin and ECD Elspeth Lynn. M&C, which likes to promote its ...
Read More »Can TBWA’s new old gang (latest recruit Paul Weinberger) work some much-needed magic?
There’s a long-running series on BBC1 called New Tricks which features a gang of old ‘tecs (played by the likes of Amanda Redman, James Bolam, Dennis Waterman and other stalwarts of the small screen) teamed up to solve old unsolved ...
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 »Post-Tesco TRBR is still hanging in there with more good work for Magners
Nice to see that The Red Brick Road is still with us despite the loss of Tesco to Wieden+Kennedy and most, maybe all, of its founder owner/managers. Its work for Magners (Irish) cider has always stayed on the right side ...
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