The News

Signings, industry moves, award show updates
and breaking campaigns.

7th Oct

AMP hosts inaugural West Coast Awards reception

The Elements Music and agency Droga5 were honored for its Ryan Barkan “Best in Show” winning ad for General Motors’ See You on the Road.

6th Oct

Havas POP appoints Kate Johnson as EVP UK

Havas’ AI-powered global content at-scale network has appointed Johnson to lead the UK business, continuing the expansion of its global footprint and evolving its craft at scale offering.

6th Oct

Sibling Rivalry welcomes Gracie Koh

Koh represents a new generation of socially-fluent director-creators moving seamlessly between culture and content.

7th Oct

KFC Italia settles the focaccia debate

DUDE Milan's mockumentary campaign, The Real Gusto Italo-Americano, casts New York actor and model Fabrizio Brienza, as KFC's official taste tester.

6th Oct

Wells Fargo’s Be a 2%er campaign returns

Wells Fargo is building on its Be a 2%er campaign starring comedians and actors Steve Martin and Martin Short.

6th Oct

WeatherTech stages a friendly intervention

This fall, WeatherTech is giving woodland creatures a chance to offer drivers some unsolicited advice in its new campaign.

6th Oct

Atlassian show us the race between knowledge and chaos

Atlassian brings viewers inside a stylised reimagining of the pivotal moments when rain enters an F1 race.

6th Oct

Supercharge your deck with Clash Royale

Blinkink director James Papper channels old-school animation magic in new film for Supercell’s Clash Royale universe.

6th Oct

There is no place like home for Bluebella

This Halloween, Riff Raff director Ivana Bobic enters a darker world with a cinematic new film for Bluebella.

6th Oct

Sofia Ivanova-Kozhevnikova joins Park Village

Originally from Moscow, Ivanova-Kozhevnikova has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning directing, cinematography, editing and art direction.

6th Oct

You can never know enough with Google

Rooted in the top football-related Search trends and queries, the campaign explores how when it comes to football, fans can never know enough.

6th Oct

Psyop Group partners with Free Agents

With access to talent across Psyop Group’s studio collective, Free Agents will tap into its pioneering approach to creative production.

6th Oct

Electric Theatre Collective launches in Poland

Spearheaded by Creative Director Mikolaj Valencia, CG Supervisor Marek Gajowski, Compositing Lead Rafał Sadowy and FX Lead, Igor Velichko.

6th Oct

Object & Animal partners with PUSH in Asia

The creative production studio has partnered with PUSH to launch a new presence in Asia, with an office in Tokyo opening as the first base.

5th Oct

EightSix launch The Handmade Series

EightSix have made eight short films about one of advertising's most familiar rituals: trying to get a room full of people to agree on music.

5th Oct

FightTheStroke launch a truly cerebral campaign

DUDE Milano's A Truly Cerebral Campaign for FightTheStroke is a behind-the-scenes film about a creative team trying, and failing, to find the one “right” way to portray a complex disability as Cerebral Palsy.