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From Oliver poaching a TikTok creative chief to Grey winning Synechron and Weetabix hiring a new social agency, July’s UK agency moves reveal where the market is placing its bets.

Pets at Home has built a national campaign around 'The Perfect Poo' — a cheeky but genuinely diagnostic sign of the right pet food — turning staff expertise into a talkable idea. Here's the lesson for retailers.

Monzo has launched 'Get Busy Living', its first global brand platform via BBH London and narrated by Olivia Colman — and its cleverest move is keeping the bank in the corner of the frame.

The AA has tied up with Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day for a summer campaign by The Gate — a partnership that works because both brands genuinely share one idea: rescue.

Honda's new pan-European platform ‘Your Dreams Engineered’ by Pablo bets on human-centred engineering just as rivals lean into AI — an ownable counter-position UK marketers can learn from.

Hours after England's exit, EE turned defeat into a purpose-led moment with ‘You Did Us Proud, Yes Boys’ — a masterclass in preparing reactive marketing for the outcome nobody wants.

Allwyn has brought Powerball to Britain with a VCCP-led campaign timed to the World Cup Final — a masterclass in buying shared cultural attention rather than just media.

A WARC and TikTok study of 400 marketers finds 88% now make more creative with AI but only 45% see better quality. The gap is about weak briefs, not weak tools.

When thieves stole a 12-tonne lorry-load of limited-edition F1 KitKats, Nestlé did the opposite of going quiet — and turned a real cargo crime into a PR Grand Prix winner at Cannes Lions 2026.

DASH Water has launched its largest-ever national campaign, taking 'The Drink That Has It All' onto Sky, ITV1, radio and out-of-home — and the effectiveness data is doing the talking.

Jacob's Creek has launched its biggest-ever campaign, 'Welcome to the Creek', with the UK as first market. Why high awareness isn't the same as high relevance.

Belvoir Farm has launched its biggest-ever campaign, 'We're Taste Obsessed', with a £1m spend and its first TV ad via Joint. A lesson in premium challenger marketing.

Carlsberg has revived its iconic 'If Carlsberg Did…' line after ten years, via Fold7. We unpack why bringing back a dormant tagline can beat inventing a new one.

The London Eye's new TBWA\MCR campaign strips away the wheel to sell the view from inside, using FOMO to convert a landmark people photograp

Good Energy's biggest campaign in 27 years, 'Meet the Re-Generation', ditches guilt for optimism. We look at why hopeful, human sustainabili

Chinese carmaker Geely Auto has appointed independent agency Joint as lead creative for its UK launch. We break down how a new entrant build

Specsavers is stretching its iconic 'Should've gone to Specsavers' line for the first time in 22 years, using it to remind customers the brand offers far more than routine eye tests.

Google's rebuilt Asset Studio lets advertisers generate images and video from text prompts, promising to democratise ad creative — with human oversight still essential.

Meta used Cannes Lions to showcase a raft of AI-powered advertising and creative tools aimed at making campaigns faster to build and easier to personalise.

Early evidence suggests being upfront about AI-generated content doesn't dent brand recall — reassuring news for advertisers experimenting with generative tools.