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Women have been around for a long time – obviously, or nobody would be – but it’s as though the advertising and marketing world has just realised. We’ve had Dove and all its imitators and now Nike is launching a ...

Here it is then, ‘the Last Game,’ Wieden+Kennedy Portland’s World Cup blockbuster (the real one) for Nike. And it’s certainly brave, featuring a team of clones taking on Nike’s human stars – who ‘Risk Everything’ – even though they’re in ...

Wieden+Kennedy is lauded by most for its estimable record of creative independence over more than 30 years but when bad times come – or not-so-good times – it wields the axe just like everyone else. The company has admitted to ...

The World Cup’s almost upon us (you know that because Wayne Rooney’s got a dodgy foot) and even Nike must be surprised at the early lead it’s taken in the perennial battle with official World Cup sponsor Adidas. Its opening ...

Well here it is (and there may be more), it’s Nike’s blockbuster for the forthcoming World Cup in Brazil – featuring every effing footballer on the planet apart from Adidas properties Lionel Messi and David Beckham (retired). This is the ...

Can’t believe Wieden+Kennedy HQ produced this prize load of old nonsense – or completio bolloxio as they don’t say in Italy – for Maserati’s Super Bowl debut. Maybe time was a bit short and they had to raid the basement ...

It’s not every day that you come across a campaign that’s lasted for a quarter of a century (obviously) but Nike is celebrating 25 years of Wieden+Kennedy’s ‘Just Do It’ with a testosterone-packed special from the Portland powerhouse – ‘Possibilities.’ ...

Wieden+Kennedy Portland seems to have inherited the mantle of the late, great film director John Ford: re-inventing American myths for contemporary Americans. In Ford’s case it was Monument Valley and John Wayne; for W+K it’s Eminem and Clint Eastwood for ...

Wieden+Kennedy Portland isn’t supposed to be Mondelez-owned Oreo’s ad agency (that’s officially shared between DraftFCB and The Martin Agency), it just keeps producing Oreo ads. Here’s the latest on the ‘Cookies and Cream’ theme. And it’s fine, a simple dramatisation ...