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At the IPA Effectiveness Awards ceremony last night, which was held at the London Hilton on Park Lane, the big winner was Adam & Eve DDB's Foster's “Good Call” campaign, which has become synonymous with Channel 4 comedy over the last...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
To coincide with the end of daylight savings on Sunday, which saw the clocks in the UK set back an hour, M&C Saatchi Sydney has created a new campaign for QUIT, the anti-smoking charity, which revolves around a website that can give smokers a rough...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a move that reveals a certain symmetry with its parent office, which claimed the San Francisco Examiner as one of its first client back in the 1980's, the New York arm of Goodby Silverstein & Partners has landed a big city tabloid as one of its...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A former Karmarama employee has teamed up with the agency's current planning director Matt Sadler, creative chief Dave Buonaguidi, account director Will Waldron, financial controller Dale Michael, and creatives Stephen Cross and Simon Connor, to set...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The social media monitoring and analysis software company Crimson Hexagon, recently opened its new European headquarters on London's South Bank within the “WeWork London” workspace. The new office is home to a team that's expected to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
JWT Amsterdam have launched a new integrated campaign for Nestle's KitKat chocolate brand, which aims to promote the new KitKat Double Chunky Caramel through “The first-ever nationwide break.” The campaign, which is entitled “Give...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, CBS Outdoor Americas, one of the region's largest out-of-home media companies, not only announced that Nick Brien, the former global chairman and CEO of the McCann Worldgroup, has been appointed to their board of directors, but that it...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Adrian Botan has been promoted to the role of global executive creative director for the McCann Worldgroup's Nestle account. Botan will join fellow global executive creative directors James Dawson-Hollis, Bill Wright...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Luke Atkinson, former head of planning at Leo Burnett Sydney, will be moving to New York to serve as vice president of consumer and cultural planning for Smirnoff vodka. Atkinson left Leo Burnett earlier in the year to get married and was replaced by...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The last week has seen quite a few notable moves in ad world, with a few significant appointments that I've already touched on (including Lindsay Pattison's appointment to global CEO of Maxus), as well as those listed below. Nils Leonard has been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I’m one of life’s big procrastinators. From buying something pretty massive like a new car to something as tiny as a runners’ water bottle for a fiver, I always want to make sure I’m doing the right thing - and getting the...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Two big appointments were announced yesterday. The first concerns Lindsay Pattison of the WPP media agency Maxus, the smallest of the media agencies within GroupM, the division of WPP that oversees media, also overseeing MEC, MediaCom and Mindshare....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
TBWA Helsinki has teamed up with Fremantle Media, the producers of hit American reality shows such as “American Idol” and “The X Factor” to produce ad campaigns for the Finnish ad agency sitcom “Buy This!”...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If you appreciate creative, inspiring online work, get ready to cheer: After a long and thrilling season, marked by nearly 1,500 entries from all across Europe, The Lovie Awards has officially announced this year's winners. And we're proud to share...
Posted by: The Lovie Awards
Influential online news blog The Huffington Post recently announced an exclusive partnership with advertising network Leo Burnett, which promises to completely transform the relationship between creative agencies and publishers. This is the first...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
London's Old Street EC1 Roundabout has recently been brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century with a state-of-the-art, four-screen digital billboard. To celebrate this digitisation, a YouTube ad campaign has been launched to raise...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey made headlines when he agreed to star in the Netflix original series House of Cards-and then made even more headlines when the critically acclaimed show began winning Emmys and Golden Globes. Spacey was the...
Posted by: Publicis Sapient
A new campaign for Australian insurance firm NRMA Insurance, highlights its home and contents insurance policy with an amusing 30-second TV spot that shows a family of possums breaking into a family's home while they're away on holiday. The campaign...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
To celebrate the return of the perpetually popular zombie-drama series The Walking Dead, the 5th season of which debuts tonight on the FOX channel in the UK, creative agency WCRS and the internet television service Now TV have teamed up to bring the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
M&C Saatchi announced yesterday that it has drafted in Tom Bazeley, founder of the digital agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine (LMFM), as its new CEO. Bazeley, who replaces Camilla Harrisson, who quit last week to lead Anomaly London, co-founded LMFM...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
General Mills, whose shopper-marketing was until now handled by a handful of independent shops, recently announced that it had consolidated its duties within a team of 5 WPP owned agencies. According to Brian Kittelson, company's director of shopper...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Visitors to Nissan's stand at this year's Paris Motor Show (which runs until the 19th of October at the Porte de Versailles) will be able to take part in a unique new virtual reality experience, brought to life by a combination of the new Oculus Rift...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Skylanders franchise brought the idea of connecting physical toys to video games into the mainstream, and the concept has been copied by everyone from Disney to Nintendo in the years since. As such, franchise publishers Activision have decided to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a new brand film created to promote the work of BBC Music, the BBC have created an ambitious new film that features a total of 27 current and legendary pop stars performing a new arrangement of the classic Beach Boys song “God Only...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Multi-platform pregnancy and parenting brand, The Bump, recently announced the launch of a unique new Charity Registry Program, which will be integrated across all of its digital platforms, including their Bump Pregnancy and Bump Baby smartphone...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In an ingenious ploy to promote the Optus network, M&C Saatchi have created a smart ocean buoy that can detect sharks and alert beach-dwellers, showcasing the power and reach of the mobile network, which is the second largest in Australia. The agency...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Earlier today, Jaguar launched its new “British Intelligence” global marketing campaign, which is being led by a cinematic 30-second TV ad starring X-Men actor Nicholas Hoult and the new “Why Jaguar” landing page on the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Saatchi & Saatchi London announced yesterday that former Nike UK brand communications director Adam Collins, and Mother's Will Nicholls have been hired as managing partners at the agency. Both Collins and Nicholls will report to chief operating...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
After a while in limbo, Saatchi & Saatchi, the Publicis Groupe owned global communications and advertising agency network, has finally filled its chief marketing officer role. The agency has been without a CMO since Ben Bittman left in 2010, but...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Samsung recently finished its global agency review, adding Wieden & Kennedy and BBH to the roster, and keeping Leo Burnett and Starcom MediaVest on board. The results have given the Publicis Groupe a fair amount of breathing room considering the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
American confectionary company Mondelez International recently signed a global deal with Google in order to accelerate their investment in digital video. Besides covering a substantial global upfront advertising commitment, the partnership, which is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It's been announced today that the United Overseas Bank, one of the largest financial services groups in Southeast Asia, has severed its ties with the Publicis Groupe agency Leo Burnett Singapore, who were formerly the banking organisations agency of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Publicis Groupe recently announced they had acquired another digital agency, following hot on the heels of their acquisitions in Germany (Zweimaleins), South Africa (Synergize), Poland (Interactive Solutions) and the UK (Outside Line). As with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Many, many years ago - when I was a mere lad (so that really is a long time back), many products had 'boards'. I don't mean the manufacturers had directors - although they did. Nor do I mean they came complete with a large piece of wood - excepting...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Following a growing trend of marketers becoming publishers, Marriott, the international hotel chain, recently announced the formation of a new global content studio dedicated to publishing, distributing and sharing digital and filmed story-driven...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a bid to move into a more premium market space, Volvo has launched a new TV campaign for its XC60 model called “Swell.” The campaign is centred around a film which introduces some of the basic principals that represent the brand's positioning...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns