Tag Archives: Vodafone

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 ...

Vodafone seems in a hurry these days: no sooner has it moved from WPP’s Grey to Ogilvy (in what must have been one of the quickest pitches ever) but it’s whizzed out its first campaign from the new agency. And ...

Vodafone, whose last two agencies were WPP stablemates RKCR/Y&R and Grey, is moving its £50m UK creative account to WPP’s Ogilvy. Vodafone began talking to agencies late last year, letting it be known that thsese would not be confined to ...