Doom Earth: How advertising's timeline was ruptured

This isn't the world we were meant to be living in, and advertising has suffered because of it. But can we get to a place where creativity reigns, and what was the 'sliding door' moment that knocked us off course? It's a bold theory, but Chris Baker, New Business Director at Park Village, thinks he knows what happened, and Will Smith is at the heart of it.

A year on from being named shots’ New Director of the Year, RSA’s Sandro Rados catches up with Amy Hey to reflect on a period of creative growth, industry reality checks, and finding fulfilment through storytelling rooted in personal truth.

Rupert Reynolds-MacLean, Managing Director of Biscuit Filmworks UK, has helped shape the company into a creative powerhouse. Lucy Aitken met him to discuss his culinary start in London, and the creative successes of Biscuit.

Greenpoint Pictures director Alex Fischman Cárdenas, who won a Silver Young Director Award this year for his PSA Listening is a Form of Love, for AdCouncil, on fresh thinking, old cameras and being scared of fruit.

While our TV screens fill up with yuletide films of varying quality, the brands who are winning Christmas's commercial battle, says Sammy Carrick, Creative Director at Coolr, are the ones that have also considered the screens in our pockets. He picks his top five festive social campaigns.