Hasta La Creative!

“Easy shaves.”

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Kolkata, India
Chief Creative Officer: Piyush Pandey
Executive Creative Director: Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Abhijit Avasthi, Rajiv Rao
Creative Director: Sujoy Roy
Art Director: Anirban Guha, Sreejita Chakroborty
Copywriter: Arnab Manna
Photography: Sanjib Ghosh
Retouch: Rajib Kumar
Print Production: Rajib Banerjee
Account Manager: Kaushik Das, Pradipta Roy

Marks & Spencer is investing £500m in rolling out a new store format to the rest of its estate by mid-2013 after a successful trial, as it unveiled a 1.2% increase in first-quarter sales.

The ad uses trader symbols for the finance markets – a bull represents a positive market, and a bear a negative market – and forms them into an Escher-esque visual illusion, demonstrating our brand’s postioning about how E*Trade can help you get involved in online trading: ‘Anyway you look at it, opportunities are out there.’

Advertising Agency: WHYBIN/TBWA/TEQUILA, Melbourne, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Paul Reardon
Creative Director: Damian Royce
Art Director: Sarah Vincenzini
Copywriter: Gareth Sweet
Illustrator: Ross Murray
Designer: Pat Sofra

“See things clearly.”

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb, Venezuela
Creative Directors: Paula Camino, Exequiel Rodriguez
Art Director: Miriangela Villegas
Illustrator: Francisco Jimenez
Photographers: Alexis Da Mota, Luis Padilla

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb, Caracas, Venezuela
Creative Director: Exequiel Rodriguez
Art Director: Maik Gassán
Copywriters: Sydney Reyes, Janet Marilyn Hernández, Gabriela Gamboa

GMG Radio closed its Manchester-based local TV station Channel M yesterday (16 April), blaming the Government’s plans for local TV for failing to provide a structure that would have enabled it to provide a “commercially viable” service.

Media companies must tailor the way they deliver digital content to take into account four distinctive personality types online, according to a new study by IBM.

LOCOG has come out fighting in support of its commercial partners, following a series of media reports criticising the role of London 2012 sponsors such as McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and Adidas.

Spanish car-maker SEAT is revamping its marketing strategy in an effort to improve brand perception outside Spain.

Virgin Media has pulled an ad starring David Tennant and Sir Richard Branson after BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, complained that it used Doctor Who to promote Virgin Media’s DVR service, TiVo.