***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 »Virgin Media’s broadband is still pants
For those of you who are interested – fellow sufferers probably – I thought I’d report that, after an all-day outage on Friday – Virgin Media is up to its old tricks with another one today. And this time they ...
Read More »Virgin Media does its best to destroy the internet
Well maybe that’s not the plan but it’s done a good job in London today and, for all I know elsewhere (as I haven’t been able to get online it’s hard to tell). So apologies from me and Sir Richard ...
Read More »M&C takes the gay way for Nat West Cashback Plus
Is this the first time a lesbian couple have appeared in a British TV ad, and a bank ad at that? Well they make a fleeting appearance in this new ad for Nat West Cashback Plus, a new retail loyalty ...
Read More »It’s a win-win for BBH as agency unveils Premier League campaigns for Barclays and Virgin
So then, the UK Premier League has started and, as ever, it’s a game of two halves. I spent Sunday at Stamford Bridge watching the triumphant (if, finally, a bit average) return of manager Jose ‘The Special One’ Mourinho, who ...
Read More »Smithwick’s ad shows Adam & Eve effect on DDB
Two years ago or so Omnicom shelled out a maximum £60m for London indie agency Adam & Eve (of John Lewis fame, itself a breakaway from Y&R). A&E was merged with DDB in London, one of the key Omnicom agency ...
Read More »Coke tries to sweeten the pill, BT takes on Sky, Decisive roughs it for Desperados and Billington Cartmell gets mouthy for Wrigley
***There’s been much ado this week about the announcement by Coca-Cola boss Muhtar Kent (left) that it’s going to put calorie counts on its fizzy drinks and stop advertising to children under 12 (a virtual impossibility in the online age ...
Read More »Here’s what we think about cable companies
Two million or so people seem to think like this anyway, according to YouTube’s viewer tally of ‘The First Honest Cable Company’ from ExtremelyDecentFilms. from a UK perspective all it needs is a grinning Sir Richard Branson, supposedly the customer’s ...
Read More »Santander’s 123 campaign subsides under a scrum of celebrity ‘brand ambassadors’
Here’s the good news: we’re making a big TV campaign! And the bad – we’ve got to use the client’s ‘brand ambassadors.’ And such was clearly the fate of Havas Worldwide in the UK (formerly the agency known as Euro ...
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