De Nederlandse Mededingingsautoriteit (NMa) gaat akkoord met de overname van de ruim vierhonderd winkels van C1000 door Jumbo, maar het supermarktconcern moet dan wel achttien winkels verkopen.
That's P.J. Pereira and Andrew O'Dell, chief creative officer and CEO, respectively, of their namesake San Francisco agency marching in the samba school parade during Carnival in Rio.
In the German city of Hamburg, pedestrians unable to resist kicking a soccer ball left lying in the street are being surprised by the sound of a howling dog.
Aegis Group acquired digital agency Roundarch for $125 million, the company announced today. Aegis is merging the Chicago-based firm with the U.S. arm of its Isobar agency network to form RoundarchIsobar.Jeff Maling, Roundarch’s president and…
Liquid-Plumr has a product called Double Impact. So, really, what choice did DDB in San Francisco have but to create the innuendo-stuffed spot below with a housewife who daydreams about two plumbers double-teaming her clog by "snaking her drain" a…
Rest assured: If the world does come to a dramatic, fiery end in 2012, it won't stop advertisers from hawking their wares.Extinction-level events have become a popular theme for brands lately, and the Anheuser-Busch InBev-owned Shock Top beer i…
Beginning on Thursday, EA and Bioware will promote their video-game space odyssey Mass Effect 3 by sending copies of the game into near space via weather balloons in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Berlin, London and Paris. Fans will be able t…
Four shops have advanced to the final round of Cablevision’s search for an agency to craft image ads for its Optimum brand. This week, Cablevision executives will brief the shops. Final presentations are slated for late March.The assignment…
Totes Amazeballs might seem like an un-Kellogg-like name for a breakfast cereal. But the company has created it anyway over in the U.K., following a Twitter request from Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess. Explains Burgess: "I heard someone use the e…
Creating a great ad campaign isn't brain surgery. Or is it? Surely it's a complex, demanding operation, and many well-intentioned efforts flatline. Barton F. Graf 9000's recent work for Kayak.com, however, is just what the doctor ordered when it c…
They could probably use some "good-mood food" over at BBDO today. Arby’s, a client at the Omnicom agency since the end of 2010, awarded its nearly $100 million account to Crispin Porter + Bogusky without a review.The move reunites Arby’s new…
Stockholm's South General Hospital is poking fun at the stereotype of sexy Swedish nurses with an ad campaign calling for "TV-series hot" applicants for a summer position in the hospital's ER. "You will be motivated, professional, and have a sense…
On her travels in Germany, my friend Robin ran across this memorable in-store display for Jack Link's Beef Jerky. While I'd question the connection between lady bits and dehydrated meat, there's no denying it's an eye-catching spin on the typical…
