Tom Adamski, who served as global chief executive officer of Publicis Groupe‘s Razorfish Global network for less than one year, has passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 43 years old. Shannon Denton, the Razorfish veteran and North American CEO, stepped up to serve as interim global chief when Adamski began receiving treatment. […]
Bicester Village, the designer outlet shopping centre, is launching a humourous new online campaign sending up impossibly perfect menswear advertising and style films. The comical online film, created by Just So, features an immaculately groomed individual who describes himself as “a sculptor, a filmmaker and more”. We meet him in his “enormous studio” as he […]
UK advertising spending grew 5.8 per cent year-on-year to reach a record high of £9.42bn in the first half of 2015, with mobile growth exploding to break the billion pound barrier for the first time, according to new data from the Advertising Association/Warc. Digital channels continue to be the primary driver of growth, with internet […]
Airbnb’s new “Put Your Space to Work” campaign will be running for 6 weeks with a combination of digital, mobile, print and out of home billboards. The creatives feature six real hosts with real passions in each of its markets. Airbnb will also be running three videos per market on social media starting October – […]
Royal Mail has issued a specially designed set of stamps to celebrate the Star Wars saga. The stamps will include a special set of 18 being released October 20 ahead of the release of the new entry into the series; Star Wars: The Force Awakens and incudes classic characters such as Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, […]
Channel 5 has marked the launch of its new real life series The Gift of Life with an arresting marketing campaign designed to highlight the plight of the 7000 people in the UK who are currently waiting for an organ transplant. A group of actors, dressed as hospital patients in surgical gowns and pushing saline […]
Beats by Dre’s latest instalment in its ‘The Game Starts Here’ Rugby World Cup campaign focuses on semi-finalists New Zealand and their iconic Haka dance. Part of the new campaign features a film documenting the history and meaning behind the war dance as told by Master Inia Maxwell – the All Blacks resident Maori expert […]
The new instalment of Ubisoft’s #1 license, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, takes place in London during the year of 1868, in the heart of the industrial revolution. An era marked by unprecedented progress, but also social injustice with an oppressed working class. BETC has created the official trailer of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, which was directed by […]
Y&R, a global agency with offices in 93 countries, was recognized as “Agency Network of the Year” at the Golden Drum Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s most prestigious advertising festival. The “Agency Network of the Year” honor is the most important award of the festival and is given to the agency with the most cumulative […]
McCann London has bolstered McCann LIVE, its digital and social offering, by hiring Irina Kondrashova as Strategy Director and the BBC’s Chris Hamilton in the new role of Editorial Director. Irina Kondrashova leads McCann LIVE’s integrated strategic services and is part of the planning team working across L’Oreal Paris, Microsoft and Zurich. Previously, Irina was […]