Tag Archives: Vodafone

Another day, another big media review at WPP it seems. Vodafone is reported to be reviewing its global media planning and buying, worth somewhere between £400-600m, at WPP media agency Wavemaker (formerly MEC.) Earlier this week it emerged that Wavemaker, ...

What is it about Vodafone? It’s one of the biggest companies in the UK and a world player but, in its advertising anyway, it seems tone deaf. Here’s another howler: disgraced Australian cricket captain Steve Smith speaking up for mental ...

Why don’t we ever like Vodafone ads? Over the years a succession of capable marketing execs and top of the range agencies have had a crack at it and the ads are always – well, not on a par with ...

There is barely an advertising break on TV without a mobile phone ad. The interesting point is that everyone now has a mobile phone, so what are the networks trying to do? Ultimately upsell. But is the advertising really helping ...

Voxi is Vodafone’s new ‘yoof’ brand, sensible enough I suppose as Vodafone seems trapped in its middle-aged, corporate image despite hundreds of millions of ad expenditure trying to tell us it’s not. So here’s Ogilvy getting down with the kids, ...

What’s Vodafone got to do with Pets At Home? Nothing, obviously, except they’re both trying to communicate with us. So here’s WPP’s ‘Team Red’ for Vodafone, saying hello to the world. With the help of the mighty RSA. Followed by ...

WPP’s Ogilvy & Mather is reported by The Times to have won a big new assignment from the UK’s department of international trade to devise and run a campaign – “Exporting is great” – to try to boost exports by ...

Vodafone and new agency Ogilvy & Mather have made a big investment in ‘hobbit’ Martin Freeman, appearing as ‘Mr Interruption’ in their debut ad (below) and now interrupting escaping robbers in an underground car park. All to show that you ...

We haven’t always been kind about Vodafone’s UK advertising efforts – so why start now? Here’s its big new campaign from new agency Ogilvy & Mather, starring Martin Freeman of Hobbit and Sherlock fame, who’s apparently signed up for the ...