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The UPS Store Unveils Its First-Ever Brand Character, 'Blu'
The UPS Store has introduced Blu, its first-ever brand character, in a multiyear Paramount Media Labs campaign built to support franchisees and reframe the chain beyond shipping.
Sep 20 min read


Domino's Turns Its Own Logo Into a Pizza in a $1m Swipe at Burger Chains
Domino's has launched 'the Domino', a personal pizza shaped like its own logo, and a $1m 'Is the Domino Worthy?' stunt that pays customers to ditch the burger chains.
Sep 20 min read


Hershey Bets on KATSEYE to Win Gen Z With New Crème Bars
Hershey has made chart-topping pop group KATSEYE the face of its new Crème Bars — a 1 September launch built to win Gen Z with 'accessible premium' indulgence.
Sep 20 min read


Dishoom Hires Brainlabs to Get Found in AI Search — a Sign of the GEO Era
When a brand as word-of-mouth-rich as Dishoom pays to be found by ChatGPT, AI discovery has crossed from experiment to necessity. Inside the shift from SEO to GEO.
Sep 13 min read


Guide Dogs Marks 'Life Firsts' in Its First Campaign From Fold7
Guide Dogs' first work from Fold7 reframes sight-loss storytelling around achievement, not pity — and the structural move underneath (merging marketing and fundraising) is the bigger lesson.
Sep 13 min read


FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon Over a $20bn Ad-Auction 'Surcharge' Scheme
A landmark suit alleges Amazon quietly tilted its ad auctions with hidden surcharges — overcharging ~1.2 million advertisers by around $20 billion. Trust in retail-media auctions is now the story.
Sep 13 min read


Chipotle Hands the Cameras to 100 Creators in Machado's First National Campaign
100 creators, 345 hours of footage, zero brand-shot video: Fernando Machado's first national Chipotle campaign bets that handing over the camera beats controlling it.
Sep 13 min read


CapCar Makes Its TV Debut With a TF1 Sponsorship to Win Over Private Sellers
After building a 500-agent network, CapCar is buying its first mass-market fame with a TF1 sponsorship — a textbook example of a digital-native brand graduating to television.
Sep 13 min read


Knack & Back's 'Meine Pizzeria' Enlists Otto, Dagi Bee and Célo & Abdï
Comedian, influencer and rap duo: Knack & Back's new campaign casts three stars whose audiences barely overlap, aiming for 200 million impressions across social and ad-supported streaming.
Sep 13 min read


BetMGM Names Indie Agency Cape Its Agency of Record, With Jon Hamm Fronting the NFL Push
No pitch, no beauty parade: BetMGM has rewarded two years of steady project work by making Cape its full agency of record — with Jon Hamm leading the NFL-season launch.
Sep 13 min read


Orange and SFR Launch 'Proximity+', a Joint Opt-In SMS Ad Offer
Two telecoms rivals have pooled their permission-based mobile audiences into a single 11.5-million-strong SMS and RCS advertising offer — and the engagement numbers are hard to ignore.
Sep 13 min read


German Ad Watchdog's Complaints Nearly Triple, With Sexism Still No. 1
The Deutscher Werberat's half-year report logged 836 complaints — nearly triple a year earlier — with gender discrimination still the leading issue.
Aug 313 min read


Dallmayr Turns the Morning Coffee Into a 'Ritual' in a New Umbrella Campaign
Munich coffee house Dallmayr's new umbrella campaign, 'Jedes Mal besonders', reframes the daily coffee as a ritual worth celebrating.
Aug 313 min read


ARD Media and DAZN Pool Their Bundesliga Ad Inventory
ARD Media and DAZN are jointly selling the Saturday Bundesliga conference across radio and streaming — a first-of-its-kind public-private ad tie-up.
Aug 313 min read


Rysm's Founders Buy Their Agency Back From WPP's Hirschen Group
Rysm's founders have completed a management buyout, taking the 250-person agency back into independence from WPP's Hirschen Group.
Aug 313 min read


France's Independent Press Bands Together Behind a New Ad House, 'Quatrième Pouvoir'
Around 25 independent French titles are forming a shared ad sales house, Quatrième Pouvoir, to make their engaged niche audiences sellable to advertisers.
Aug 313 min read


AXA and Publicis Conseil Put Single-Parent Families Centre Stage
AXA France and Publicis Conseil have built a campaign around single-parent families, backed by new, concrete support in its accident-of-life cover.
Aug 313 min read


Burger King France Plays a Chef Romance in Its 'Masters du Chef' Reboot
Burger King France's third 'Masters du Chef' edition, by Buzzman, stages a comedic romance between chefs Paul Pairet and Michel Sarran.
Aug 313 min read


Sud Radio Rebuilds Its Grid for La Rentrée, With Jacques Cardoze on Mornings
Sud Radio has rebuilt its 2026-27 schedule for la rentrée, with Jacques Cardoze taking the morning show and a doubling-down on opinionated talk.
Aug 313 min read
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