ITV’s Ad of the Year is its very own ad for Thinkbox – surely some mistake?
Well it’s a bit embarrassing isn’t it, there ITV goes with its annual tribute to advertisers and agencies and the winning ad, chosen by a panel of 8,000 viewers apparently, is the ‘Harvey the dog’...
View ArticleDGM’s Belgian TNT TV ‘drama’ is the ad of the year so far – according to...
Unruly Media has produced a very useful list of the top 20 most (Facebook) shared and (YouTube) viewed ads so far this year and the clear winner is ‘A dramatic surprise on a quiet square’ for Belgian...
View ArticleThis agency of the year stuff is a poser – Marketing chooses BBH (and PHD for...
Marketing magazine in the UK has chosen BBH, Bartle Bogle Hegarty as was, as its creative agency of the year, among a long list of agencies doing all sorts of things, which BBH presumably doesn’t. PHD...
View ArticleMy pick of 2012: Samsung Galaxy, 18 Feet & Rising and Johnny Hornby
These are my choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Samsung Galaxy S111 The launch campaign for the new Galaxy handset in the US was the work of 72 & Sunny...
View ArticleMy pick of 2012: Dollar Shave Club, Grey New York and Michael Dubin
Fearless Group co-founder Jerry Judge gives us his choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Dollar Shave Club There are still good campaigns in the US, in spite...
View ArticleMy pick of 2012: Wieden+Kennedy London, Tesco (sort of) and Neil Christie
Adscam/The Horror! author and all-round advertising legend George Parker, author of Confessions of a Mad Man among other seminal business school tomes, chooses his agency(ies) of the year, ad/campaign...
View ArticleMy pick of 2012: Follow the Frog, Wieden+Kennedy and Jerry Buhlmann
All right, league tables of achievement are as commonplace as turkeys right now. Why burden you with another one? Well, I’ve been asked to – by the good folk at More About Advertising. So: Ad of the...
View ArticleMy pick of 2012: Audi’s ‘Ahab’, Wieden+Kennedy London and Ajaz Ahmed
These are my choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Tomorrow (or maybe the next day) we’ll try to reach a consensus about the ultimate top dogs of 2012. So to...
View ArticleThe big winners of 2012: Wieden+Kennedy London, Samsung/72andSunny and the...
OK, here we go: after a not very scientific analysis of the ruminations of Paul Simons, Giles Keeble, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and myself we come to: Agency of the Year Wieden+Kennedy...
View ArticleAndy Law: my agencies, ads and person of the year
It’s that time of year again, as we keep keep saying, and we’ve asked our panel of distinguished columnists to choose their agency, network, ad or campaign and person of the year. First up is...
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