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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, ...

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 ...