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Heineken Turns Pub-Hopping Into a Streaming Service With Amazon
Heineken has borrowed the on-demand playbook to tackle a very British problem: deciding where to drink. Its new 'Pubscription' service sorts local pubs into genres you can browse like box sets.
6 days ago4 min read


A Local Marketing Playbook for Muswell Hill Businesses
Merx is a Muswell Hill business — here's our practical, jargon-free playbook for helping a local N10 business get found, get chosen and win more nearby customers.
7 days ago4 min read


Enedis Swaps the Ad Break for a Film About Storks
Instead of a 30-second spot, the French grid operator made a 17-minute film — and bet that depth would earn attention a hard sell never could.
Oct 214 min read


Snapchat Tells Luxury the Boutique Still Beats the Feed
Snap gathered luxury brands in Paris to make a counterintuitive case: the people around you shape a purchase more than the feed does.
Oct 214 min read


McDonald's Brings Back Boo Buckets With Disney Villains
McDonald's is reviving a 1986 Halloween icon and bolting it to Disney's villains — a collectible play that runs on nostalgia and IP at once.
Oct 214 min read


Anthropologie Bets Its Holiday Season on the Reunion
Anthropologie's holiday push trades gift-shots for homecomings — an emotional bet backed by a creator series and a last-minute DoorDash delivery play.
Oct 214 min read


Charli XCX Signs Absolut for a Two-Year Pop Culture Play
Absolut didn't book a one-off ad with Charli XCX. It signed a two-year partnership — a bet on sustained cultural relevance over a single viral hit.
Oct 213 min read


Chipotle Built a Handbag So Big You Could Climb Inside It
Chipotle turned its takeaway bag into a 170-litre fashion object. The real target is a quietly lucrative menu line: digital-only Family Meals.
Oct 214 min read


Taco Bell Lines Up Kevin Hart, Paris Hilton and Doja Cat
Taco Bell is handing a different celebrity the menu every week of National Taco Month — and dangling a $1 version to its app members as the hook.
Oct 214 min read


Lloyds Scrapped Its AI-Made Black Horse Ads, Fast
The bank's customer chief says generative AI belongs nowhere near its brand — but everywhere in its fight against fraud.
Oct 214 min read


D&AD Hands Its Presidency to Uncommon's Nils Leonard
The Uncommon co-founder and former Grey London chief takes the top honorary role at the design-and-creativity organisation.
Oct 214 min read


Classic FM Switches On Christmas Early, and Keeps It On
The broadcaster's first all-Christmas classical station arrives in mid-October, fronted by festive talent including Aled Jones.
Oct 214 min read


Subway Lets the Sandwich Counter Take Over Your Whole Life
Saatchi & Saatchi's first EMEA-wide push for the chain imagines what happens when the confidence of ordering exactly what you want spills out of the shop.
Oct 214 min read


Greene King Turns 227 Years of Brewing Into a Beer Slide
The brewer follows its embroidered 'Beer Tapestry' with a cinematic hero film that treats centuries of brewing as something worth showing off.
Oct 214 min read


The Zero-Click Web: Getting Found When Search Stops Sending Traffic
Search engines increasingly answer questions in place instead of sending clicks. Here is how to be the brand that gets quoted, not just the one that ranks.
Oct 214 min read


Meßmer Repackages Tea as Gen Z Self-Care
Facing cheaper private labels, the tea brand bets on mental-health positioning, a creator-fronted range and a 'Tea, Talk & Selfcare' podcast.
Oct 213 min read


McDonald's Quietly Pulls the McRib From Germany
A cult sandwich that has been on sale in Germany since 1989 is leaving the permanent menu, as McDonald's leans into rotating limited promotions.
Oct 213 min read


Aldi Süd Puts Its Global Creative Account on the Table
The discounter's worldwide creative account has reached a two-horse final round, and its long-standing agency Antoni has already told staff it is out.
Oct 213 min read


Ricoré Woke Up an Entire French Town for Breakfast
The Nestlé coffee brand took over a small town in the Marne for one morning — and turned a shared breakfast into a national stunt.
Oct 214 min read


A Roofing-Led Website Built for F Martini Building
How Merx built F Martini Building a clean, conversion-focused website — led by roofing, powered by a cost calculator, and designed to turn North London homeowners into booked surveys.
Oct 214 min read
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