A holiday for the independent businesses: METRO’s “Own Business Day 2018” on October 9 gave special attention and appreciation to business owners around the world, who offered more than 380,000 specials to their customers on that day. In 24 METRO countries, several campaigns provided more visibility and attention for them. Highlights include the “The […]
Chicken chain KFC has sought to draw a line under a week of biting headlines spurred by a UK-wide chicken shortage by issuing a full-page apology to its customers, team members and franchise partners in February 23’s issues of Metro and The Sun. Having a little fun with its own three letter acronym branding in […]
There is a saying in England that goes ‘Yesterday’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper’. Indeed, wrapping produce in paper used to be common practice in fish markets across Europe. Perhaps the creatives at Serviceplan Group had this old adage in mind when they created their brilliant new campaign “The Daily Catch”, for wholesale […]
Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival is always an outrageous and happy affair. People dress up and they drink and often they drive home—which is exactly what the main-sponsor of the event, Antarctica beer, hoped party-goers would not do. Working with Brazil’s Almap BBDO, they came up with a creative and socially responsible advertising concept called the […]