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Which? Puts Trust at the Heart of a Brand Reboot
Consumer champion Which? has launched 'The answer you can trust', its first major platform since appointing Neverland, landing as AI-generated reviews raise fresh doubts about who to believe online.
6 days ago4 min read


Most Brands Still Don't Trust Sports Sponsorship to Pay Off
A new IPA report finds only 45% of brands are confident sponsorship drives business results, but those applying three fundamentals are around six times more likely to believe it works.
6 days ago4 min read


The World's Biggest Brands Are Quietly Spending Less on Ads
New WARC data shows the combined ad-to-sales ratio of 25 global giants has fallen from 6.1% in 2019 to 5.5% in 2025, meaning they spend proportionally less to sell more.
6 days ago4 min read


Birds Eye's Long-Serving Marketer Resurfaces at a GBP1.5bn Food Group
Steve Challouma, the former Birds Eye and Nomad Foods CMO with nearly 30 years in food, has joined The Compleat Food Group as its first chief growth officer as the business pushes toward GBP1.5bn.
6 days ago4 min read


Netflix Admits 'We're Not Satisfied' as Ad Growth Falls Short
Netflix posted 12% revenue growth in Q3 2026, its slowest in three years, and told investors it is 'not satisfied' as advertising revenue surged roughly 80% but still missed internal targets.
6 days ago4 min read


Nissan Sends the Qashqai on an Unstoppable Chase
Nissan and TBWA\Nissan United dramatise the Qashqai e-Power Hybrid's range in 'Unstoppable', a 'Follow That Car!' chase where the Qashqai stays miles ahead of a taxi, a truck and a plane.
6 days ago3 min read


Waitrose Says It's Not Fine Dining, It's 'Fine Dine In'
Waitrose & Partners and Wonderhood Studios reposition the supermarket's at-home dine-in range as restaurant-quality, landing on a line built to own a whole occasion: 'It's not fine dining, it's fine Dine In.'
6 days ago3 min read


Coca-Cola Opens the Doors to a New Loyalty Club
Coca-Cola UK has launched 'The Club', a free-rewards scheme built on its Superfan platform and relaunched Supercan Premier League range, as the battle for first-party drinks data heats up.
6 days ago4 min read


McDonald's Turns Its Dipping Sauces Into Halloween Face Paint
McDonald's UK and Leo UK have reimagined six signature dips as a limited Halloween face-paint range, a shareable stunt that mines the brand's most recognisable assets for cultural attention.
6 days ago3 min read


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


Kantar Finds Half of France Would Let AI Run the Heating
French households are warming to the idea of handing everyday decisions to algorithms — starting, Kantar finds, with the heating.
Oct 214 min read


Google Warns French Brands to Rebuild for a Post-Click World
Google's message to French marketers was blunt: the click is dying, and the websites built to win it need rebuilding.
Oct 214 min read


M6 Opens Its Streaming Ad Inventory to the Little Guys
Premium streaming inventory used to mean big budgets and a media agency. M6 is handing the keys to small businesses for a four-figure sum.
Oct 214 min read


France Is Quietly Learning to Buy Straight From Its Feeds
In-feed buying was a novelty a year ago. The latest Colissimo data shows it is becoming a habit, led by the young.
Oct 214 min read


Orange Turns Its Phone Shops Into Prime Ad Space
The telecoms giant is monetising something it has always owned: the footfall through hundreds of high-street shops.
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


The Black Friday Creative Lesson Brands Keep Ignoring
AppLovin's BFCM analysis points to an unglamorous truth: the brands that refreshed creative weekly out-earned those that didn't, by a directional 23%.
Oct 214 min read


Coke and Nike Spend Harder While Google and Meta Spend Less
A new WARC study reveals a split advertising economy — legacy brands spending a bigger share to defend ground as the platforms that sell ads spend far less.
Oct 214 min read
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