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BVG and Jung von Matt Crown Berlin the Real 'City of Love'
Berlin's transit operator BVG and Jung von Matt released a tongue-in-cheek film crowning Berlin — not Paris — the real 'city of love', extending a decade-old platform.
Aug 253 min read


Lufthansa Turns Flying's Unwritten Rules Into a 'Travel Etiquette Collection'
Lufthansa and Serviceplan Munich turned in-flight etiquette debates — armrest rights, clapping on landing — into a limited 'Travel Etiquette Collection' of merch.
Aug 253 min read


A French Startup Compares Founding a Company to Having a Baby in Its First National TV Ad
Nancy-based company-formation startup Swapn has launched its first national TV campaign, comparing launching a business to having a baby — a digital B2B challenger betting on linear TV.
Aug 253 min read


La Poste Puts the Number '84' on Referees to Fight Abuse
La Poste's multi-federation campaign has referees wear the number 84 to protest incivility — a new digital film wave now running across four French sports.
Aug 253 min read


BeReal Proves Its 'RealCard' Ad Format With Crédit Agricole
French-born social app BeReal published results from its first 'RealCard' app-open takeover, run with Crédit Agricole during the 2026 World Cup — nearly 14 million impressions.
Aug 253 min read


L'olivier Assurance Runs Its First 100%-AI-Generated Campaign
French direct insurer L'olivier Assurance and agency So Bang launched 'Sortez du troupeau', a campaign whose characters and animation are entirely generative-AI-produced.
Aug 253 min read


Intermarché Extends Its 'Life Shouldn't Cost This Much' Saga With Four New Films
Intermarché and agency Romance added four absurdist new films to their long-running 'life shouldn't cost this much' saga, treating everyday groceries as luxury goods.
Aug 253 min read


JCPenney Trolls Off-Price Rivals With a Satirical 'Retail Rejuvenation Retreat'
JCPenney has launched a comedic campaign parodying wellness retreats to 'cure' shoppers of bad off-price habits, reframing value and taking a direct swing at treasure-hunt chains.
Aug 253 min read


Fanta Builds an Original 'Haunted Universe' to Own Halloween
Coca-Cola's Fanta has unveiled a proprietary Halloween 'Haunted Universe' of original characters across ~50 markets — a bet that owning seasonal IP can make Halloween its answer to Coke's Christmas.
Aug 253 min read


Liquid Death and Garage Beer Want You to Mail Your Pee to AI Data Centers
Liquid Death and Jason Kelce's Garage Beer launched a satirical 'We Want Your Pee' campaign urging Americans to save urine to 'cool' AI data centers — a culture-jack built for earned media.
Aug 253 min read


Old El Paso Turns Messy Family Dinners Into a Global Ad in 'The Crunch Is Calling'
Old El Paso's biggest creative shift in years, by VCCP Blue, celebrates the joyful mess of family dinners with a taco crunch that summons people home across 21 markets.
Aug 253 min read


Audi's Electric Cars Sneak Onto the Silverstone Grid in 'After Dark'
Audi UK's cinematic 'After Dark' spot from BBH London has four e-tron models evade security to reach the Silverstone grid, tying EV performance to motorsport heritage.
Aug 253 min read


Channel 4 Makes Social Awkwardness the Real Survival Threat
Channel 4 and in-house agency 4Creative launch survival series 'Apocalypse' with three darkly comic films arguing modern humans are too awkward to survive.
Aug 253 min read


Three Bets on an Inflatable Chicken to 'Let Fun In'
Three UK has retired "Life Needs A Big Network" for "Let Fun In," a culture-first platform fronted by a viral inflatable-chicken figure skater — a bet that entertainment now sells telecoms.
Aug 253 min read


Klarna's CMO Tells Brands to Stop 'Drinking the Kool-Aid' of Fandom
Klarna CMO David Sandström, on his way out after nearly a decade, has one parting shot for the marketing industry: most brands mistakenly chase cultural fandom when they should just be brilliantly useful.
Aug 243 min read


Toyota Hilux Tells European Drivers to 'Show Restraint' in New Pan-European Push
Toyota Hilux drivers get a stern-but-cheeky reminder to 'show restraint' in a new pan-European campaign that leans into the pickup's dominance rather than fighting it — a smart move for a brand losing shelf-share to Chinese and electric rivals.
Aug 243 min read


Peroni Ditches McCann After Two Years — Havas Now Runs the Global Creative Account
Asahi-owned Peroni Nastro Azzurro has handed its global creative account to Havas after a competitive pitch that started in April, ending a two-year McCann relationship and consolidating Asahi brand duties inside a single holdco.
Aug 243 min read


FAZ Puts Its Iconic ‘Clever Mind’ on a Smartphone for the First Time
Scholz & Friends and the FAZ have shown the iconic ‘kluger Kopf’ reading on a smartphone for the first time, fronted by Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hütter — a pointed digital-first statement.
Aug 213 min read


14Septembre Opens a Dedicated Fashion & Beauty Division
French agency 14Septembre has launched a dedicated fashion-and-beauty practice spanning desirability, influence and generative AI — a bet on category specialisation.
Aug 213 min read


Reverse-Mortgage Lender Arrago Hands Its B2C Brand Build to Sweetpunk
French reverse-mortgage lender Arrago has appointed Sweetpunk to define its entire B2C brand system and product architecture — a rare summer new-business win in consumer finance.
Aug 213 min read
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