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Pinterest bets on London with a new retail HQ
Pinterest has opened a new London headquarters at Oxford Circus, positioning the UK at the centre of its shopping-focused advertising strategy.
Aug 52 min read


Dairylea sets kids free in new VCCP campaign
Mondelez's Dairylea has launched 'A World of Their Own', a VCCP-created campaign celebrating childhood independence and taking a gentle swipe at helicopter parenting.
Aug 53 min read


TBWA goes handmade with a bold new global identity
TBWA has rolled out its first full global visual identity, a deliberately imperfect, handmade system built in-house by Design by Disruption.
Aug 53 min read


Retail Advertising in the UK: The 2026 Guide to Retail Marketing & Media
Retail advertising is booming in the UK. Here's how retail marketing and retail media fit together in 2026 — the formats, the networks, and how brands should start.
Aug 43 min read


Google Performance Max Explained: A Beginner's Guide for UK Businesses
TL;DR: Performance Max is Google's AI-run campaign type that serves your ads across all of Google's channels — Search, Shopping, YouTube, Gmail, Discover, Display and Maps — from a single setup. You hand over a goal, a budget, your best creative and some audience clues; Google's machine learning does the bidding and placement. Used well alongside (not instead of) a Search campaign, it can unlock cheap incremental reach. Used blind, it can quietly burn budget. Here's how to se
Aug 45 min read


Brits crave the human touch as digital fatigue sets in — Mintel
Mintel says UK consumers are rejecting over-automated experiences and prioritising human connection — a warning for brands leaning too hard on AI at the expense of the personal.
Aug 42 min read


Beefeater 0.0 revives Jamiroquai's ‘Virtual Insanity’ for the no/lo era
Beefeater 0.0's new Lucky Generals campaign reanimates Jamiroquai's 1996 ‘Virtual Insanity’ as a sequel — a nostalgia-led play riding the fast-growing no/lo drinks trend.
Aug 42 min read


Škoda puts the ‘Shhh’ into its name in a national brand campaign
Škoda's new Leo UK campaign turns the háček above the Š — and the ‘shhh’ sound of saying the name right — into a participation-driven brand platform across TV, OOH and social.
Aug 43 min read


Kingfisher builds its retail-media engine with two senior hires
Kingfisher has created its first Head of Data Monetisation role and B&Q has hired a retail-media director from Amazon — a clear signal the DIY group wants a serious commerce-media business.
Aug 43 min read


Deliveroo Media opens its order tracker to programmatic ads
Deliveroo's most-viewed screen — the Order Tracker — is now buyable programmatically through Google Ad Manager, opening one of retail media's highest-attention placements to the open market.
Aug 43 min read


X and WFA end their two-year GARM war — what it means for brand safety
The World Federation of Advertisers has settled X's antitrust lawsuit and agreed not to relaunch GARM — leaving advertisers to manage brand safety on their own terms.
Aug 43 min read


VML UK names Cat Davis as CMO — why agency marketing chiefs matter now
VML UK has appointed Cat Davis, formerly of Atomic London, as chief marketing officer — the latest sign that big agencies are investing in marketing themselves as consolidation reshapes the sector.
Aug 33 min read


ITV's World Cup H1: ad revenue up 3%, ITVX viewing up 27%
ITV posted a 'solid' first half — total ad revenue up 3%, digital ad revenue up 13% and ITVX viewing up 27% — powered by the World Cup, with a £100m buyback and a softer Q3 flagged.
Aug 33 min read


Teardown: what Asda plugging into Amazon's ad engine means for smaller retailers
Asda's UK-first tie-up with Amazon's retail ad service is a big-brand move — but it signals where retail media is heading for everyone. Here's what smaller retailers should take from it.
Aug 12 min read


The 5 marketing numbers every UK small business should actually track
Forget vanity metrics. These five numbers tell a small business whether its marketing is actually working — and what to do next.
Aug 11 min read


The UK small business marketing playbook: 7 moves that punch above your budget
Seven practical, low-cost marketing moves any UK small business can make this quarter — from Google reviews to owning your email list.
Aug 12 min read


The Marketing Minute: your week in UK marketing (w/c 28 July 2026)
Your weekly two-minute round-up of the biggest UK marketing stories — and what each one means for your business.
Aug 12 min read


Global launches its biggest-ever billboard network — and OOH’s data race heats up
Global has unveiled ‘Billboards by Global’, a 4,500-panel out-of-home network reaching 43m Britons a fortnight — and it’s pitched squarely at data-led, measurable OOH.
Jul 313 min read


Asda plugs into Amazon’s retail ad engine — a UK retail-media first
Asda is adopting Amazon’s Retail Ad Service across its online grocery and George platforms — the first UK retailer to do so — as the retail-media land grab intensifies.
Jul 313 min read


KFC unveils the ‘Bucketverse’: a global rebrand that lands first in the UK
KFC has begun rolling out its biggest brand overhaul in years — new typefaces, a refined Colonel and a bucket-led ‘Bucketverse’ system — starting in the UK and Ireland.
Jul 313 min read
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