Face-swap tech used to chilling effect
DDB Unlimited Amsterdam’s smart campaign to raise awareness of child prostitution counters complacency with a shocking tactic.
A different type of heartache
Marking today’s National Coming Out Day in the US, Los Angeles LGBT Center has released a moving two-part video on the theme of parental acceptance.
Historic storytelling in new Smirnoff campaign
The vodka brand retraces its history with its first global advertising campaign in over 25 years.
Domestic violence steps out of the shadows
A new campaign for the One Love Foundation highlights the difficulties facing victims of domestic violence.
Forget Thunberg; shopping carts are going to save the world
In a playful commercial for the Coop from Havas Milan and helmed by The Family's Vincent Lobelle, a crack-team of trollies set out to right the planet's wrongs.
Angry birds get heard in WWF campaign
Bird Records, the first music label using tracks created from birdsong, launches with Ivan Dorn's awesome avian track and a dazzling animated promo.
Has Donald Trump eradicated AIDS?
As difficult as it is to believe what's coming out of the Trumpster's mouth, this DeepFake campaign might just be predicting a future truth.
Pons Jewell helms a gem
BBH London and Academy director Ian Pons Jewell collaborate on a seriously sparkly epic following the journey of a diamond through the ages.
Face-swap tech used to chilling effect
DDB Unlimited Amsterdam’s smart campaign to raise awareness of child prostitution counters complacency with a shocking tactic.
A different type of heartache
Marking today’s National Coming Out Day in the US, Los Angeles LGBT Center has released a moving two-part video on the theme of parental acceptance.
Historic storytelling in new Smirnoff campaign
The vodka brand retraces its history with its first global advertising campaign in over 25 years.
Domestic violence steps out of the shadows
A new campaign for the One Love Foundation highlights the difficulties facing victims of domestic violence.
Forget Thunberg; shopping carts are going to save the world
In a playful commercial for the Coop from Havas Milan and helmed by The Family's Vincent Lobelle, a crack-team of trollies set out to right the planet's wrongs.
Angry birds get heard in WWF campaign
Bird Records, the first music label using tracks created from birdsong, launches with Ivan Dorn's awesome avian track and a dazzling animated promo.
Has Donald Trump eradicated AIDS?
As difficult as it is to believe what's coming out of the Trumpster's mouth, this DeepFake campaign might just be predicting a future truth.
Pons Jewell helms a gem
BBH London and Academy director Ian Pons Jewell collaborate on a seriously sparkly epic following the journey of a diamond through the ages.
Q&As and behind-the-scenes info on the latest and greatest commercials, shorts and music videos.
HowMarmitetookcontrolofyourmind
The most recent Marmite campaign aims to brainwash haters of the yeasty extract into becoming fully-fledged lovers of the divisive brand. The director and one of the creatives behind the project explain how...
How to... survive a car shoot in extreme conditions
Mark Lindley, ECD at Spark44 Birmingham, has been involved in every Land Rover and Range Rover model launch for the last 15 years. He tells us how to get through shooting in some of the most inhospitable locations on earth, and how he survived falling through the ice!
How BETC and Traktor rebuilt LEGO's world
We speak to the creative minds behind LEGO's first global brand campaign for 30 years - BETC founder Remi Babinet, LEGO in-house agency Senior VP Remi Marcelli and directing team Traktor.
How Barnardo’s made their cackle of hyenas
We caught up with FCB creatives Jayshree Viswanathan and Chelsey Redshaw, The Mill’s ECD Jonathan ‘Wes’ Westley and director Sam Brown to find out how the harrowing bullies were created.
Landscape is so last year in the vertical world
The official opening of Samsung KX, the tech giant’s new ‘digital playground’ in London’s Kings Cross, took place this Tuesday with ‘the world’s first vertical gig’ as its centrepiece. Henry Scotland, CD at Iris, the agency behind the event, explains the process of going portrait.
OB Management sign Shaun James Grant
With a passion for injecting visceral, narrative elements in all of his work, Shaun strives to tell evocative stories that explore human vulnerability.
Weekly Rewind: October 11, 2019
This week's round-up of the best stories from the world wide web include a Will and a way, futuristic fives, forgotton follows and abandoned apps.
Josh Hayward joins To the Moon & Back for global representation
With his film Still / Life Josh won a Gold Young Director Award 2019 during the last Cannes Lions.
Park Village signs fashion & music video director Regina Sepp
Regina’s career in film-making started whilst she was studying Fashion and it is this background, passion and interest in youth culture and music that resonates and shines through her videos, short films and branded content.
VMLY&R appoints David Shulman as Chief Experience Officer
Shulman will join a global team of CX leaders who focus on the transformation of customer experience across VMLY&R’s largest global clients.
Leo Burnett London appoints Carly Avener as Managing Director
Hire follows new business wins including Iceland and Gulf Oil.
- Nectar completes rebrand with campaign to promote new app and website
- AXA launches Sharing Makes Us Stronger campaign with Fallon London
- Latest Volkswagen SUV campaign from adam&eveDDB
- Subway scandalises pizza in Above+Beyond’s campaign to launch the Pizza Sub
- Lexus show us a different kind of power
- BMO passes a championship field on to a new generation
- Riton X Oliver Heldons new music video for Turn Me On
- Rachel’s Organic Taste for Rebellion campaign from Archer's Mark
- Union Editorial’s Chris Huth weaves stunning visuals and poignant reflections for Yeti
- Russell Stover Chocolates and Cutwater launch rebrand campaign
OB Management sign Shaun James Grant
With a passion for injecting visceral, narrative elements in all of his work, Shaun strives to tell evocative stories that explore human vulnerability.
Weekly Rewind: October 11, 2019
This week's round-up of the best stories from the world wide web include a Will and a way, futuristic fives, forgotton follows and abandoned apps.
Josh Hayward joins To the Moon & Back for global representation
With his film Still / Life Josh won a Gold Young Director Award 2019 during the last Cannes Lions.
Park Village signs fashion & music video director Regina Sepp
Regina’s career in film-making started whilst she was studying Fashion and it is this background, passion and interest in youth culture and music that resonates and shines through her videos, short films and branded content.
VMLY&R appoints David Shulman as Chief Experience Officer
Shulman will join a global team of CX leaders who focus on the transformation of customer experience across VMLY&R’s largest global clients.
Leo Burnett London appoints Carly Avener as Managing Director
Hire follows new business wins including Iceland and Gulf Oil.
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Alice Bottaro: Creative journeys and changing everything
One of the greatest heroes of the automotive industry was a women — a fact that few people outside of the historically male-dominated sector knew about until Mercedes-Benz launched its film about Bertha Benz this year. Through this campaign and more, Alice Bottaro, Creative Director at antoni, Berlin, is helping Mercedes-Benz connect with a female audience in a job that she considers to be the best in the world.
Changing the face of automotive advertising
Spindle's Aldona Kwiatkowski has fused automotive commercials with a fashionable flare, notably with her work for Mercedes. David Knight talks to the Polish-born director about her 'melancholic mindset' and the necessity of the female gaze.
Andre Moreira on steering Toyota's creative journey
To begin this month's automotive special Tim Cumming talks to Andre Moreira, European ECD of Toyota's in-house agency at The&Partnership, about tinkering with car brands and building an agency model for the future.
On My Radar: Ivan Bird
Moxie Pictures director Ivan Bird marvels at Traktor's Tide ad, loves his Highwayman jacket and pleads for the end of singing animals in advertising.
Matt Ogens: A Few Of My Favourite Things
The Bullitt director talks us through some of the items he keeps around himself to maintain his creative inspiration, including a pair of playful pooches, some mindfulness enablers and a scar his parents don't know about (yet!).
Playlist: Niall O'Brien
We chat to Furlined director Niall O'Brien about his greatest inspirations, moleskine notebooks and his ears?
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Big Buoy MD, Colin Sumsion, discusses why good VFX should go mostly unseen when it comes to viral car ads.
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