Virgin and BBH walk into a row with the BBC over new David Tennant ‘Dr Who’...
Virgin Media’s new TV campaign by newly-appointed agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty features the actor David Tennant, best-known for his stint as the BBC’s ever popular Dr Who. The ad features a Dr Who-style...
View ArticleNow W+K and Old Spice enlist a prize tosser and Heather Graham for ‘Believe...
Following a huge hit campaign is always a problem, especially one built on humour and Wieden+Kennedy has been wrestling with this somewhat for mega prize-winning Old Spice ever since Isaiah Mustafa and...
View ArticleSunrun cuts the crap in new solar energy campaign
US solar energy provider Sunrun has produced a neat new campaign through Heat San Francisco, ‘Let’s Be Honest,’ showing the real reason people switch to solar: saving money rather than saving the...
View ArticleDDB Paris takes Playboy shower gels back to 1967 and Hugh Hefner
Well it says here that they’re ‘new’ Playboy shower gels but this campaign by DDB Paris (wisely or unwisely) harks back to the era when Playboy was cool, circa 1967. These days, in advertising terms...
View ArticleIs new Karmarama Pilgrim’s Choice campaign barking mad and brilliant or just...
On the face of it, the last thing you’d expect from Pilgrim’s Choice cheddar cheese is a campaign featuring a ‘mini cowboy’ in potentially hazardous everyday scenarios, like being threatened by a...
View Article‘Two iPhones walk into a bar…I forget the rest’– Apple’s Siri turns joker for...
Everybody’s always looking for the next big thing from Apple but maybe it’s here already. The iPhone’s very own concierge Siri turns joker in this latest TBWA Chiat Day iPhone campaign starring actor...
View ArticleAngela Bellotte’s seductive motion scores for Samsung and BETC London
BETC London seems to have scored mightily on YouTube with this sexy number, ‘Seductive Motion,’ for Samsung, demonstrating the virtues of its ‘motion control’ smart TVs thanks to the unwitting efforts...
View ArticleBad boy advertiser Go Daddy moves to Deutsch
Deutsch New York has been awarded one of the year’s most intriguing tasks, US domain name and web hosting company Go Daddy which has been aggravating a big chunk of the US with its home-produced ads...
View ArticleSony’s new Experia phone gets the Linus Karlsson treatment from McCann
Sony is one of the business school classic case histories: the bigger it gets, the worse it becomes and the more money it loses. So it could do with a bit of help and new agency McCann New York is...
View ArticleAndrex bamboozles us with bamboo and CGI
Andrex has been flooding the airwaves in the UK with this ad by JWT for its new ‘eco’ line. On a creative level it shows once again the remorseless rise of CGI, substituting animated versions of the...
View ArticleBacardi picks McCann vets to helm new US ads
Bacardi has turned to agency veterans Jeff Weiss and Paul Opperman of OW and Lee Daley former chief strategy officer of McCann, to try to revive Bacardi in the US. The drinks giant recently appointed...
View ArticleConfident Lloyds celebrates going it alone with blowUP outdoor campaign
It’s almost as though Lloyds Bank is feeling a sense of relief at being Lloyds Bank again, not Lloyds TSB as it was before it shunted off 632 branches into newly-independent TSB. The relief, of course,...
View ArticleBETC tries doggy style for Diet Coke hunk’s pets
The dear old UK was ever a nation of contrasts and, while half the country is concerned about ‘heat or eat,’ the nation’s pets seem to be more pampered than ever. Andrew Cooper, the model who appears...
View ArticleArgos drops extra-terrestrials for ‘Get Set Go’ in first CHI campaign for new...
Last year Argos concluded a review of its account with long-serving agency CHI & Partners and decided – to stay with long-serving agency CHI. Now it’s back with a new campaign from the agency to...
View ArticleVirgin Atlantic dumps leggy lovelies for B2B pitch in first campaign from new...
When Virgin Atlantic moved from RKCR/Y&R to adam&eveDDB there was something akin to outrage in the UK agency business. Why on earth were they moving? What was wrong with VA’s (undeniably...
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