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Reports have been leaking in over the weekend that Liberty Global, the owners of Virgin Media, are looking at placing a takeover bid for ITV. The telecommunications and television company owned by billionaire John Malone has reportedly been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a new TV spot created by BBDO New York for Snickers' “You're Not You When You're Hungry” campaign, rookie Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel (known as “Johnny Football” by fans) is transformed by sheer hunger into...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
An internal announcement made yesterday has stated that Doug Scott, the president and founder of Ogilvy Entertainment, will be joining WME | IMG as the firm's New York-based executive vice president of marketing and brand solutions. A new role...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
“Misunderstood,” the Christmas themed ad that TBWA released over the holiday season last year, was recently named “Most Outstanding Commercial” at the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday (the 16th). The ad, which was put together...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Storytelling has always been at the heart and soul of a successful brand identity, creating an approachable personality to encourage consumer engagement. But with the rise of the tech-savvy Generation Z, brands are innovating by telling their tales...
Posted by: bluemarlin
In another new ad for the iPhone 5s, Apple has decided to remind their users that they are more powerful than they think by encouraging them to “Dream” up ways in which they could be using their smartphones in their respective jobs. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
M&S uploaded three new “Back to School” TV spots to its Facebook Twitter and YouTube channels yesterday, as well as an exclusive online video called “Both Getting Picked”. The ads form part of a campaign, which will focus on...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Emma-Kate Dobbin, the former head of social media retail at Telstra, has been named as the new social content director at M&C Saatchi's Sydney office. Dobbin is not only an experienced social content strategist, but is also an award-winning...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Subaru of America recently debuted its new advertising campaign for the 2015 Subaru Legacy, the Japanese car manufacturer's new mid-size sedan. The campaign aims to position the car as a smarter alternative to 'mainstream' choices with three national...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As well as losing out on their own 2014 World Cup (after a staggering 7-1 defeat to Germany on Tuesday evening) it would appear Brazil have lost something else to a European country. In this case we're referring to the iconic 'Christ the Redeemer'...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Publicis Kaplan Thaler has been named as the lead creative agency for the American seafood restaurant chain, Red Lobster, two months after its account was put into review following a departure from parent company, Darden. Media for the brand is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Recently it was announced that Radio 1 and Radio 1 Xtra would be shedding a cross section of their DJs. Controller Ben Cooper has handed Mike Davies, Jen Long, Ally McCrae, CJ Beatz, Crissy Criss and Robbo Ranx their cards, and his actions are blamed...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
By way of distraction from the work I was supposed to be doing today, I clicked on a link to a piece of writing on a reputable music website. About a paragraph into the article an unexpected thing happened. The webpage was suddenly obscured by a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It was announced yesterday that Qorvis MSLGROUP, the Publicis Groupe's strategic communications and engagement group, has named Colleen Wilber as its new vice president. Wilber is renowned as one of the best media professionals in the business, with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Nationwide, the American mutual insurance company, announced last week that it had selected Ogilvy & Mather New York to handle the creative advertising work for their new marketing agreement with Peyton Manning, the quarterback for the Denver...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that the Sport & Entertainment division of M&C Saatchi had been selected as the agency to deal with the title sponsorship of the English Football League by Sky Bet, the online gaming subsidiary of BskyB, the UK's largest...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
‘Nobody knows anything’. So goes the famous quote from screenwriter William Goldman, suggesting that it’s impossible to predict public taste. It’s a theory that would certainly be supported by the haphazard history of the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Bridgestone, the world's largest tyre and rubber manufacturer, are targeting a new audience with a new advertising campaign by Publicis Hawkeye for its revolutionary new line of tyres. Emmy-award winning Modern Family star Julie Bowen has been tapped...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, Jeremy Clarkson was forced to apologise for having said a bad thing. A very bad thing. It is the only word in the whole English language that I can think of that is 100%, totally and utterly off limits. The word is “n****r”....
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Here’s an odd thing about rock music: the more frightening it tries to be, the more hilariously ludicrous it becomes. Ozzy can bark at the moon till the end of time, but he’ll still be more golden retriever than werewolf. Ronnie James Dio...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Taking a primetime advertising spot last Saturday night during Britain’s Got Talent, the new television commercial celebrating John Lewis’ 150th anniversary was revealed. Created by Adam & Eve/DDB, the ad is called Never Standing Still,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
The new campaign from AMV BBDO for the UK's largest electrical retailing and services company, Currys and PC World, takes a clever approach, examining the kind of subtle and not-so-subtle manipulations our partners occasionally make in order to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The BBC notwithstanding, and a peppering of community outfits aside, there aren’t really any independent radio stations left in the UK. It’s all ‘networks’ - which is a rather overexcited way of saying a large corporation...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Last month it was announced that online brokerage firm 'E-Trade' were retiring their now legendary talking baby commercials, which have been mainstays on American television since they first aired during the Super Bowl commercials back in 2008....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McDonald's is set to be honoured at this year's Cannes Lions Lions International Festival of Creativity, as the 'Creative Marketer of the Year' for 2014. The festival (the world's largest annual awards celebrating creative excellence in brand...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
DDB Group Sydney announced today that Phil Dowgierd has been appointed as managing director for Tribal Worldwide Sydney. Dowgierd moves to the DDB Group from AKQA, where he led a group of 60 individuals focusing on the global platform development,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The cheerful, hirsute face of the frozen food kingpins brand since 1967 has been relegated to a 'bit-part' in his namesake's reported £16 million revamp of their world famous fish finger brand. The captain is to be replaced by a young family, in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Working in partnership with the Ad Council, Maddie's Fund and The Humane Society of the United States, the Chicago branch of global advertising agency network Draftfcb, have recently unveiled a new campaign promoting pet adoption. The pro-bono...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the Christmas schedule proved, telly in 2013 was a very hit and miss affair. On the one hand, we had the hilarious glory of 'Gogglebox'; on the other, the clunky scripts of Matt Smith's last days in 'Doctor Who'. Still, we're a week into a new...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
As I sit down to write my blog today, I’m a bit anxious. You see, we moved on Saturday. But this was no ordinary move. I’ve left the creative centre of the country (and some would argue of the world) and gone to live in a place where...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
In the early days of television, a journalist asked the British Prime Minister whether he had anything he wanted to say to the nation. Eden paused for a moment, then said - "No." This exchange has passed into history as an example of a considerably...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
"All branding is about setting yourself apart and trying to be clear to your audience or customers that you stand for this set of values.” Absolutely spot on…and so it should be, because those words of wisdom come from Martin Lambie-Nairn...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
If you read my column earlier this week, you'll know I'm in America. If you didn't, I'm in America. In fact, I'm now in America's oldest town, St. Augustine - on Florida's Atlantic coast. And despite the temperature being in the low eighties (which...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The most successful film in UK cinemas this week is 'Insidious 2'. Having seen the first 'Insidious' instalment just a couple of weeks ago, I don't think I'll bother with chapter two. The best horror movies are akin to long road trips through foreign...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
They do things differently in Russia. Almost like it's another country or something. If their government isn't enthusiastically installing homophobic laws they've borrowed from some particularly intolerant 19th century fruitcakes, their president is...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Do you listen to the radio via the internet? Quite possibly. Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Live, 6Music, Capital, Smooth - they're all there, streaming away. But, when was the last time you listened to an internet-only radio station? One that's online rather...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw