Is this Virgin Media’s swan song with BBH and Usain Bolt? The creative account’s off to adam&eveDDB. BBH and Bolt are going out with a bang with a new ad debuting ‘Intelligent WiFI’ (it fixes itself it seems) which has ...
Read More »Adam&eveDDB wins back Virgin Media
Adam&eveDDB has won Virgin Media, previously with BBH. The last round was between A&E and David Abraham’s new agency Wonderhood Studios it seems. Virgin Media departed DDB London in 2011 and this was one of the triggers for Omnicom/DDB buying ...
Read More »Virgin Media tries again as it reviews out of BBH
Some advertisers never seem to get it quite right – including those in the broadband/mobile market: EE and Vodafone to name but two. Another is Virgin Media, now owned by Liberty Global in the US, best known for its cable ...
Read More »Virgin Media speeds into the new year with more Bolt
Virgin Media is bringing in the new year with a new ‘Super Bolt’ campaign from BBH, plugging its supposedly faster connection speeds with the eponymous athlete. The campaign breaks on January 1. This is a bit more like it than ...
Read More »“Super fast” Bolt needs a better story to tell for Virgin Media
Usain Bolt is back in another BBH ad for this site’s least favourite media owner Virgin Media (if we were a BT customer it might be different), flogging “super fast fibre.” Saw a report the other day that compared claimed ...
Read More »Virgin Media blows it with Bolt and Richard E Grant
Virgin Media is launching new media “bundles,” doubling broadband speeds free for some customers (I’d better get one for all that money I pay them) via a new multi-media campaign from BBH, featuring Mr Speedy himself Usain Bolt. And what ...
Read More »Virgin Media plumbs new depths in customer service
Sorry for the interruption to the aforementioned customer service – we’ve been off-air for part of the day. Broadband supplier Virgin Media, according to one of its multifarious call centres, decided to apply a “software upgrade” to our service today. ...
Read More »Virgin Media’s new campaign from BBH: we bring you more rubbish quicker
Virgin Media is taking the bull by the horns in its new campaign from BBH, claiming its fibre network is the fastest way to all the goodies on the internet and elsewhere, especially entertainment. So it has bunch of B-team ...
Read More »Do we believe BT and Virgin’s new broadband boast?
BT and Virgin have combined to hymn the praises of the UK’s broadband network, claiming to have invested over £15bn in five years to spruce up the creaking system. They don’t actually mention the latter. Cable outfit Virgin is the ...
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