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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 ...

Selling cars is more about selling gadgets and apps these days and Volkswagen has a new one, Car-net which helps you find the damn thing when you can’t remember where you parked it. Technology is turning us all into idiots: ...

It may be the dog days of an extended winter in the UK but the awards season will soon be upon us, without some of its recent stand-bys such as adam&eveDDB’s work for Harvey Nichols. This scored mightily – six ...

British researcher WARC seems to have become the fount of all knowledge on many aspects of advertising including adspend, through its tie-up with the UK’s Advertising Association; the Effies for ad effectiveness and now its latest acquisition the Gunn Report, ...