Havas London announces the appointment of Vicki Maguire as its new Chief Creative Officer. She joins the King’s Cross-based creative agency following 10 years at Grey London, where she held the same role, and will start in January 2020. Maguire is one of the most high-profile and awarded creative leaders working in the industry today. […]
-New work from Havas London aims to break the stigma around lubrication and challenge the myth that only penetrative sex is good sex-
Durex, the world’s #1 sexual wellbeing brand1, has today launched a playful, pro-foreplay marketing campaign for its Pleasure Gels lube collection. Foreplay Forever, which runs across multiple European markets, aims to normalise lube usage for pleasure – not just for problems – while simultaneously busting the myth that only penetrative sex is good sex. Two-thirds […]
Kia Motors (UK) Limited and Sky Media launches a new campaign to raise awareness of Kia’s electric car credentials, presented solely by kids. The six week campaign will see an all-child cast explore the benefits of electric cars in a three-minute film, asking all the questions adults are too afraid to. The content will be […]
Advertising creatives Steven Bennett-Day and Aaron Howard are launching Few & Far, a new kind of studio that specialises in ideas. Steven Bennett-Day was most recently chief creative officer at Feed. Before joining Feed in 2017, he spent three years as group executive creative director at Havas Helia. It was during this time that he […]
Seeking to increase the awareness of disability causes, aid association AACD and advertising agency Z+ present the “Empathy Objects” campaign, which made participants experience firsthand the difficulties faced by people with physical disabilities or reduced mobility. The action intends to emphasise the importance of AACD’s work and motivate more people to donate to the institution, which has five orthopedic workshops in […]
Health giant Reckitt Benckiser have released Lemlift, a dissolvable supplement designed to support the immune system with Vitamin C and Zinc. With the dog days of summer far behind us and the cold, wet and blustery commutes of winter ever encroaching, Lemlift’s debut ad, ‘Winter Look’, features a vibrant character animation, fully intent on combatting […]
Pernod Ricard UK has installed strawberry scented posters throughout Oxford Circus underground station as part of the launch campaign for Beefeater Pink, the new pink variation of its Beefeater London Dry Gin. In a campaign devised by location marketing specialist Posterscope and strategic media planners at Havas in partnership with Exterion, Pernod Ricard UK’s immersive […]
Created by Havas and produced by UNIT9 Films, ‘Vanish: Love Longer’ is a 20-second spot that encourages social change by proving a stain should not be the end of your clothes. Vanish reveal the backdrop to a sustainable project where they encourage the recycling of clothes that would typically go to landfill sites. LS […]
Above+Beyond, the independent creative agency for the audience age, has appointed Ed Cox to the new role of Media Partner. He joins Above+Beyond from Havas, where he is the Managing Director of Forward Media, the agency Havas set up to manage the O2 business. Cox has an extensive background in media, data, and integrated communications as […]
Television advertising relies on too many outdated stereotypes and is causing resentment among both men and women, according to a new survey that explores attitudes to gender around the world. In the UK almost half of women surveyed said they resent how women are represented in a lot of advertising, compared to less than a […]