For how long can a beer brand stay on top if half the world purportedly hates it? That’s one of the issues facing best-selling Bud Light but agency Weiden+Kennedy seems to have found a way of postponing nemesis – thanks ...
Read More »Wieden+Kennedy New York off to a flyer in 2018
Wieden+Kennedy globally is on a roll as some advertisers decide that the best way too cut through all that schlock out there is with something fresh and original – or creative, as we used to call it before the robots ...
Read More »And the MAA Agencies of the Year for 2017 are…..
It’s been a funny old year in adland with holding companies and their media agencies in full scale retreat but some creative independents rising to the fore. A new breed of client seems happy to go with indies: local, regionally ...
Read More »Snow is no problem for TK Maxx snow globe Xmas
TK Maxx has been gifting “snow globes” to some fortunate customers in its Christmas campaign by Wieden+Kennedy, as we all, supposedly, hanker after a white Christmas. But then it snowed. Very nifty. Lucky V/O Bill Nighy hadn’t departed to warmer ...
Read More »Wieden+Kennedy sets out to win the World Cup for England
Advertising a football team or, indeed, any sports team, is a potential nightmare: what if they don’t do very well? Which will be on the mind of Wieden+Kennedy as the agency takes on the UK’s Football Association, specifically the England ...
Read More »Is W+K’s new F1 logo the pits or the cat’s whiskers?
Which one do you you like best? The old Formula 1 logo by Carter Wong. Or the new one, designed by Richard Turley and his team at Wieden+Kennedy? Not sure? Here’s how they got there. Some drivers, led by world ...
Read More »Wieden+Kennedy in new-style Formula 1 driving seat
Wieden+Kennedy London is in the driving seat to handle new-style Formula 1, now owned by Liberty Media which also owns the UK’s Virgin Media. First up is a new logo (below), designed by W+K’s Richard Turley, part of a big ...
Read More »TK Maxx unveils an even more “ridiculous possibility” from W+K for Christmas
Christmas seems to be bringing out the anarchic side of Wieden+Kennedy – never too far away – and client TK Maxx is offering “real snow” delivered by “snow experts” to a select number of customers, lucky/unlucky enough to buy a ...
Read More »Sainsbury’s tries to connect us to dinner in W+K’s latest
Wieden+Kennedy is continuing its high octane advertising for Sainsbury’s, this time with “What’s for dinner,’ expressed via emojis. Aagh! I think we’ll institute an award for the best ad – or maybe any ad – that doesn’t include smartphones, gadgets ...
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