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Tubi Goes Global With 'Find Any Feeling for Free'
Tubi's biggest-ever campaign, 'Find Any Feeling for Free' by Mischief @ No Fixed Address, leans on Y2K nostalgia to sell its free library as the cure for anyone chasing a feeling.
1 day ago3 min read


Specsavers Turns a Hearing Test Into a Nightclub Guestlist for the Over-50s
Specsavers' 'The Testlist' rewards over-50s who complete a free hearing screener with a Groove Armada guestlist — a sharp piece of health marketing aimed at Britain's original ravers.
Sep 43 min read


Sir John Hegarty to Open the 2026 Festival of Marketing With a 'Creative Blueprint'
Sir John Hegarty will open Marketing Week's 12th Festival of Marketing on 14 October 2026 at The Brewery, London, with a keynote on using creativity to drive growth.
Sep 43 min read


What KitKat's 'Heist' Teaches About Reactive Marketing
KitKat's viral 'Heist' campaign is being held up as a masterclass in reactive marketing — and the lesson isn't luck, it's decades of brand fundamentals making the improvisation land.
Sep 20 min read


The 2026 Media Week Awards Shortlist Lands — Here's How to Read It
The 2026 Media Week Awards shortlist is out ahead of the 15 October ceremony — a snapshot of the UK media work the industry rates most highly, and a useful read on where media thinking is heading.
Sep 20 min read


Chipotle Hands the Cameras to 100 Creators in Machado's First National Campaign
100 creators, 345 hours of footage, zero brand-shot video: Fernando Machado's first national Chipotle campaign bets that handing over the camera beats controlling it.
Sep 13 min read


Paris FC Gets Its First-Ever Sonic Identity, by Sixième Son
Paris FC has unveiled its first-ever sonic identity, created by Sixième Son and inspired by 'Sous le ciel de Paris'.
Aug 313 min read


Burger King France Plays a Chef Romance in Its 'Masters du Chef' Reboot
Burger King France's third 'Masters du Chef' edition, by Buzzman, stages a comedic romance between chefs Paul Pairet and Michel Sarran.
Aug 313 min read


Parkside Spins the London Eye for a Guinness World Record — and a Lidl Drop
Lidl’s tool brand Parkside used a cordless drill to rotate the London Eye for a Guinness World Record — timed to a limited-edition drill landing in French Lidl stores on 31 August.
Aug 213 min read


Dept Reshuffles Its DACH Leadership
Digital agency Dept has strengthened its DACH management with Franzis Heusel and René Dalock as previous executive Lünenbürger-Reidenbach departs — the latest agency reshuffle in Germany.
Aug 203 min read


D&AD Warns AI Is Hollowing Out Junior Creative Training
D&AD’s 2026 report ‘The Cost of the Shortcut’ finds AI in 27.6% of award entries and warns the industry against letting automation erode junior creative training.
Aug 203 min read


Virgin Atlantic Holidays Finds Its Own Voice Again With ‘If Not Now, When?’
Virgin Atlantic Holidays’ ‘If not now, when?’ by Lucky Generals trades postcard clichés for the moment before you book — its first standalone brand voice in about eight years.
Aug 203 min read


McLaren Turns 63 Years of Racing Heritage Into a Fashion Show With Central Saint Martins
McLaren Racing has handed its motorsport heritage to Central Saint Martins fashion students for ‘Designed to Race’ — an F1-meets-fashion play using emerging London talent.
Aug 203 min read


Disney bets on handmade craft for World Princess Week
Disney's World Princess Week short by Fallon and Alex Prager leans on bigatures, puppets and a live orchestra — a deliberate handmade craft flex against AI content.
Aug 193 min read


Liquid Death and Garage Beer target AI data centres — with pee
Liquid Death and Jason Kelce's Garage Beer newsjack the backlash against AI data centres with a crude stunt — earned-media marketing done the challenger way.
Aug 193 min read


Old El Paso turns a taco crunch into a global rallying cry
Old El Paso's 'The Crunch is Calling' by VCCP Blue builds a 24-market platform around an ownable taco crunch — a masterclass in distinctive assets that travel.
Aug 193 min read


PlayStation bets big on 'It Happens on PS5' — and courts a fan backlash
PlayStation's 'It Happens on PS5' by adam&eve/TBWA teases GTA VI and more — and the instant fan backlash shows brands no longer own the narrative post-launch.
Aug 193 min read


Ahoj-Brause revives the 'PPAP' meme as a social-first jingle
Ahoj-Brause turned the 2016 'PPAP' meme into a remixable jingle for its Brausefinger launch — a heritage brand mining precise nostalgia to reach Gen Z on social.
Aug 182 min read


Lidl fires back at Aldi with a mocking film in the discounter 'app war'
Lidl hit back at Aldi with a mocking film in Germany's discounter 'app war' — a comparative-advertising spectacle that's really a fight over loyalty-app data.
Aug 183 min read


Pumpkin spice invades the deodorant aisle as CPG brands manufacture a moment
Old Spice's 'Fallidudes' and Native's snarky PSL send-off turned pumpkin spice into a fall marketing battleground — how CPG brands manufacture cultural moments.
Aug 183 min read
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