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The news that Virgin Atlantic is moving its advertising account to Adam&Eve/DDB is unlikely to surprise many folk close to the UK industry but it’s also a sad day for the losers, RKCR/Y&R. Also it is an interesting shift from ...

Campaign reports that Adam&Eve/DDB has won the £20m Virgin Atlantic account. Which – if true and it surely is – is probably the least surprising news of the year. Richard Branson’s carrier has been at RKCR/Y&R for about 20 years. ...

What lies behind the Virgin Atlantic creative review? Virgin Atlantic have announced they’re going to conduct a global creative review of their business, putting RKCR/Y&R on notice. I wonder why? I have similar queries on other relationships such as Argos ...

Spring is in the air and new clients’ thoughts turn to new agencies. Virgin Atlantic’s long-serving (and, in some respects, long-suffering) boss Steve Ridgway departed last year and now the airline, still synonymous with Virgin founder Richard Branson, is reviewing ...

Steve Ridgway (pictured) leaves the airline after 27 years, just two years less than the first flight to New York in June 1984. I had the pleasure of working with Steve briefly when we produced the first advertising campaign for ...

Virgin Atlantic, which we still think of as Sir Richard Branson’s airline, has appointed American Airlines customer boss Craig Kreeger (left) as its new CEO. Kreeger succeeds the highly-regarded Steve Ridgway who has left after 27 years, in part because ...

Maybe Richard Branson’s new Virgin Atlantic partner Delta Airlines has brought some advertising money as part of its £224m dowry to buy Singapore Airlines’ 49 per cent stake in the bearded one’s airline business. Because we haven’t seen anything quite ...