Tag Archives: vw

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, ...

Volkswagen says its “making the future real” (whatever that means) with its new T-Roc SUV, what we used to call a crossover but with SUV driving attributes. So there’s a new global campaign, ‘Born Confident,’ from adam&eveDDB and DDB Berlin/Hamburg ...

Marketing Volkswagens in the US can’t be the easiest of tasks at the moment, with various legislators chasing down the company over its emissions wrongdoing. But the Wolfsburg giant still seems too be selling cars by the truckload across the ...

To be be (creative) or not to be? Now there’s an age-old dilemma, illustrated here by a new, avowedly creative effort from DDB Paris for VW, plugging a plug-in. And the alternative, from WPP’s Ford agency GTB Europe for the ...

Vauxhall is aiming its new Crossland X at the school gates crowd of women in big cars (so beloved of teachers). This is the first effort from new Vauxhall agency Mother. At which point descriptive powers rather fail me. Only ...

We observed a while ago that VW was getting its ad mojo back despite its many issues (lying and cheating about diesel emissions). Thanks to my estimable friend George Parker in Adscam for reminding me of this one, from Hamburg’s ...

Adam&eveDDB seems to have been saving its best goodies for the end of the year, just in time for its traditional, artfully timed run at Agency of the Year. On what is now officially John Lewis Day in the UK, ...