As founder and chief purpose officer of ThisAbility, a network designed to support the industry’s best creative disabled talent, Sulaiman Khan has his sights set on revolutionising the landscape.
D&AD president and Google Creative Lab ECD Steve Vranakis aims to inspire a new generation of creatives.
Publicis Media has appointed Sue Frogley as UK chief executive, replacing Amanda Morrissey who is moving after only 18 months to a global client strategy role.
Korean car-maker Hyundai is seeking to expand its creative agency roster, beyond in-house shop Innocean Worldwide, with a particular focus on pushing its Genesis sub-brand.
San Diego-based Beauty Bakerie is the latest start-up to receive funding from Unilever Ventures, which has led a $3m (£2.3m) round of funding in the company.
Merger and acquisition deals involving UK marcoms agencies have fallen year-on-year despite the entry of the management consultancies into the space.
AnalogFolk’s chief operating officer, Matt Law, has left the agency to join a blockchain-focused VC firm called Outlier Ventures.
Advertisers have spent more on video ads in the first half of the year, pushing it over the spend on banner advertising for the first time.
Mexican street food brand Wahaca is celebrating Mexican holiday Day of the Dead with a series of immersive events across the UK.
Mobile network provider Giffgaff is taking over WAH Nails on Peter Street, Soho, London, reviving the salon with a difference that it launched last year.
Global’s DAX has bought US digital audio ad sales company AudioHQ in a deal that the British group claims will create the world’s largest digital audio advertising sales platform.
The Advertising Association has launched a campaign, called “A Great Advert For Britain”, to celebrate the role of foreign workers in the ad industry and warn it is under threat because of Brexit.
ISBA has appointed Boots UK and Republic of Ireland managing director Elizabeth Fagan as its new president.
On the 20th anniversary of Blackcurrant Tango’s ‘St George’, one of the most popular ads of all time, Brittaney Kiefer speaks to one of its copywriters about what creatives can learn from its legacy.
Netflix outstripped its subscriber growth forecast in the last quarter by almost a million, adding 5.2 million paying customers in the three months to 30 September.
Facebook has bought social polling app tbh, which invites users to anonymously answer good-natured multiple choice questions about friends, and then sends the answers to the subjects in the form of compliments.
Snap has announced a joint venture with US media giant NBCUniversal to develop and produce shows for Snapchat.
A sailor comes into port. Really. This iconic, early 1970s TV commercial for Old Spice proves that having a handsome man disembark from a formidable sailing vessel (the real-world answer to the drawing on the product’s familiar bottle) is one memorable way to make an entrance.
Once in town, the young salt strides in time to jaunty, nautical music. The dashing sailor, it turns out, is played by actor John Bennett Perry, a Broadway performer and father to then-baby Matthew, the future Chandler Bing on “Friends.”
The sailor’s on a mission: He’s got a duffel full of Old Spice, and as the Johnny Appleseed of after-shaves, he needs to spread it around.
“He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” hit the airwaves in the U.S. in September 1983 and only lasted about two years. But switch on the TV (or check your device) and you’ll find the show’s characters still gainfully employednot in reruns, but in advertising. The MOTU crew appears in the latest “Great Answers” Geico ad from The Martin Agency, while in the U.K. He-Man and Skeletor engage in a little “Dirty Dancing” for price-comparison site Moneysupermarket.com. And not too long ago, Skeletor left Castle Grayskull to troll Honda’s Twitter and Instagram feeds.
There’s a good reason these ridiculous, and ridiculously muscled, kids’ fantasy characters are so popular today: they remind us of a more innocent time.
Cartoon stars have a long tradition of moonlighting in advertising. In their heyday, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble pitched cigarettes on prime time. The Peanuts gang provided a lovable face for insurance giant MetLife. But the Masters of the Universe, along with other children’s characters, have lately resurfaced as part of a nostalgia trend that continues to sweep pop culture. British viewers have seen Scooby-Doo trying to get a mortgage for Halifax Bank and the Muppets promoting bakery brand Warburtons. Meanwhile, popular U.S. shows like “Stranger Things,” “The Goldbergs” and “This Is Us” hark back to earlier decades.
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