Hasta La Creative!

-R/GA London and director Tom Kuntz made some pretty weird ads for Hyundai’s performance line, N (video above).

-Uber launched a review seeking its first global creative partner.  

-Y&R’s BAV Group launched a new proprietary model called BAVSocial.

-CHI & Partners won an assignment to promote Netflix’s blockbuster Bright.

-Analysts agree with Martin Sorrell that the consultancy threat is “overhyped.”

-Execs from R/GA, DigitasLBi and more told BuzzFeed that the Russia scandal has only reinforced the effectiveness of Facebook as an ad platform.

-Y&R London creative technologist Gracie Page discusses “The challenge of designing ad formats for the voice era.”

-Kids just aren’t into Under Armour anymore.

That would be John Binder, whose acid-tongued commentary covers the runways and the beltway.

Digital advertising and online subscriptions helped offset continued declines in print advertising in the third quarter. Total revenue increased 6 percent, to $386 million.

(TrendHunter.com) Office toys have gained quite a bit of popularity amongst consumers who are looking for a way to infuse a bit of fun into the workspace, so the Giant Stress Ball is designed to take things to the…

Focusing your entire holiday strategy around Thanksgiving weekend? It’s time to step back and look at the (much) bigger picture.

The holidays present the most critical window of the year for retailers (hence, the origins of the term “Black Friday”), but consumer shopping habits during this season aren’t what they used to be. Since the internet opened the floodgates for online product discovery and e-commerce, people have started researching and shopping for holiday gifts much earlier than late November, extending the season by several weeks and painting a more complicated landscape for marketers to navigate.

To better understand the extended holiday shopping season across key categories, we dug into our vault of first-party data that spans 5,000 brand and retail websites to discover what you need to know for 2017.

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Rekorderlig, the Swedish cider brand, is recreating its cider lodge pop-up at Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival once again with its new range of Botanicals Cider.

Sonos encouraging people to listen better and Virgin Media staging Usain Bolt’s sprint across the Thames are just some of the activations up for an Event Award.