UPDATE: Walkers has now apologized and shut down this campaign. We recognise people were offended by irresponsible & offensive posts & we apologise. We are equally upset & have shut the activity down. -- Walkers Crisps (@walkers_crisps) May 25, 2017 Original story below: British potato-chip maker Walkers Crisps crashed and burned on Twitter in stunning...
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May 25, 2017
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Walkers doesn't think its selfie stunt through
By Tim Nudd
UPDATE: Walkers has now apologized and shut down this campaign. We recognise people were offended by irresponsible & offensive posts & we apologise. We are equally upset & have shut the activity down. -- Walkers Crisps (@walkers_crisps) May 25, 2017 Original story below: British potato-chip maker Walkers Crisps crashed and burned on Twitter in stunning...
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Ogilvy seeks a mate for the only Northern White Rhino left
By Angela Natividad
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By David Gianatasio
Another round of the famous campaign from BETC Paris
By Kristina Monllos
Rob Campbell moves from Shanghai to L.A.
By Patrick Coffee
Deutsch reached all the way around the world to find its newest executive. Today, Wieden + Kennedy veteran Rob Campbell officially joins the agency's Los Angeles office as chief strategy officer. Campbell starts on May 30 and will report directly to president Kim Getty, filling a role that has been vacant since the late 2015...
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Chris Garbutt was elevated to the role
By Erik Oster
TBWA has a new global chief creative officer to oversee creative direction and development across TBWA offices around the world and a client roster including Apple, Adidas, Accenture, Nissan and Michelin. The agency elevated Chris Garbutt to the role from his previous position as global creative president and chief creative officer of TBWA\New York. "To...
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Marcus Engman says Ikea is more than just a brand
By Katie Richards
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands--As head designer at Ikea, Marcus Engman is responsible for managing a team of 20 designers who dream up and produce all the products Ikea brings to its shelves every year. At this week's "What Design Can Do" conference here in Amsterdam (focused mostly on how designers can address climate change), Engman spoke about...
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Smart work from BBDO Bangkok
By Angela Natividad
Practically all hearing-impaired people remove their hearing aids at night, according to the Ministry of Social Development and Human Society in Thailand. But 70 percent of common household dangers also occur at night. So what happens when you can't hear a siren or an alarm? The Thai Health Promotion Foundation partnered with the Deaf Association...
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Revisiting an instant classic
By Gabriel Beltrone
This fun Nissan stunt from last year just won a Pencil at The One Show--by inventing self-parking office chairs. A video from the campaign, created with agency Birdman, features the chairs, starting in various configurations of disarray, automatically rolling over to desks and tables, where they tuck themselves neatly into place--all at the command of...
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S.Q.U.I.D. whisperer Rafael Fittipaldi tells all
By David Gianatasio
Unless you've been lost at sea, you've probably heard about the giant robotic squid that Old Spice deployed last weekend for a wacky, high-profile internet game on Twitch. (It generated plenty of ink!) The breathtaking beastie starred in a game called S.Q.U.I.D. (Shared Quests Uniting Individual Dudes), which was live-streamed Friday, Saturday and Sunday at...
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