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Volkswagen in America is beginning its fightback proper against the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal (it hopes it is, anyway) with a new WPP agency line-up headed by Johannes Leonardo. ‘Hello Light’ is a pretty dramatic mea culpa, referring briefly to the emissions ...

Would you adam&eve it, a bummer from Volkswagen. But actually it’s not the cultured academy in Paddington but DDB Berlin for VW’s new T-Cross, presumably a sign that VW’s T-Roc is starting a family. How many brands does VW need? ...

I see that Audi is re-pitching its UK creative account, at BBH from just about the time the agency started nearly 40 years ago. Well that’s a long time and, no doubt, it’s been re-pitched in the meantime. But BBH’s ...

Campaign reckons that celebrated film director and production company owner Ridley Scott of RSA was the secret weapon in WPP’s successful pitch for VW creative in North America. It also speculates that WPP CEO Mark Read spent between $500,000 and ...

Volkswagen has concluded its global creative review with a rather odd choice of agencies: WPP, still on the Ford roster globally handling “activation” and media, has been appointed to handle North America creative while DDB looks like the big winner ...

VW Commercial Vehicles is partnering with Men’s Health Awareness Trust in its current ‘Balls to Cancer’ campaign inviting men to get their privates checked. So agency adam&eveDDB has produced a pleasing little vignette on the subject. Will it make a ...

This year’s trend is advertisers (and their agencies) sending up ads and here’s another by DDB Australia for VW Amarok trucks, featuring, inevitably perhaps given its origin, a ditzy English commercials director. There’s a health and safety man too. Quite ...

Adweek reckons that teams from Omnicom, Interpublic and WPP are trekking off to Wolfsburg next week to complete the pitch for VW’s ad account – about to be split into regional ‘hubs’ in new VW CMO Jochen Sengpiehl’s big new ...

The search for business advantage goes into some strange places these days, in the case of Volkswagen in Mexico tampering with the weather. It’s had to suspend the automatic use of “hail cannons,” devices that send shock waves into the ...