The Campaign Podcast

How is adland going to change this year?

To get listeners ready for the year ahead, Campaign's editorial team give a taste of adland's predictions for the next 12 months, including which resolutions t…

"A lukewarm snog" might be how one Campaign journalist describes 2024, but how would you?

In the final episode of the year for The Campaign Podcast, the editorial team gathers one last time to recap t…

Maisie McCabe, editor of Campaign UK and David Droga, founder of Droga5 and chief executive of Accenture Song, sat together on stage at Ciclope last month to discuss creativity, the evolving landscap…

2024 had big expectations when it came to artificial intelligence, but did the year live up to the hype... was it a year of "AI in action" as the IAB predicted or AI inaction?

Campaign's editorial tea…

During the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Channel 4 set themselves the target of subtitling all the ads during the channel's coverage, beginning at a current level of 25%. After a huge effort, the broa…

In this bonus episode, Charlotte Rawlings, senior creativity reporter at Campaign, is joined by Maisie McCabe, Campaign’s UK editor, to discuss this year’s Christmas ads with some of the industry’s t…

DING, DING, DING! Adland's agencies have entered the ring.

In this episode, Campaign's editors of creativity, media and tech battle it out to determine which discipline should be the lead agency for c…

Campaign’s editorial team take to the studio clad in Christmas jumpers and novelty antlers to chat about this year’s crop of festive ads. 

A wave of ads have dropped over the last few weeks, including…

The jury is out and the 2024 awards season is drawing to a close – with adland celebrating the best work of the year at the Campaigns Big Awards 2024 last week.

In this episode, tech editor Lucy Shell…

Campaign's editorial team gather in the studio to question how to launch a successful ad agency.

This year we have seen exciting start ups include Uncharted founded by the female trio (Fern Miller, H…

As Black History Month draws to a close, Campaign's editorial team is questioning has adland lost its commitment to DEI, and if so, why?

After George Floyd's death in 2020, the advertising industry sa…

A Campaign feature revealed the proportion of people experiencing or witnessing bullying and harassment in adland has increased from 34% in 2023 to 47% this year.

This episode speaks to Lorraine Jenni…

The Media Week Awards 2024 took place last Thursday with a theatrical show, Rylan Clark and almost 1000 people in attendance. As one of the most prestigious awards in media, and one of the rowdiest n…

In a Campaign feature on hybrid working, Thom Binding, co-founder of the Creative Communications Workers union, said culture is “a manipulative term defined by management”, often to enforce complianc…

Publicis Groupe's chief executive Arthur Sadoun breaks his six-year silence from public speaking in the UK at Campaign's inaugural Campaign Live event.

Opening the conference opposite Campaign's UK ed…

Is true, and fair, cross-media measurement possible?

ISBA launched its cross-media measurement platform Origin into beta trails last month, following successful alpha trials in 2023. However, the laun…

Is it risky for brands to pick a new agency without a proper pitch process, or is it time to reevaluate how agencies win business?

Last month B&Q appointed Leo Burnett without a pitch, pushing out the…

Last night the great and the glorious in podcasting gathered not around microphones but tables to attend the sold-out British Podcast Awards 2024, presented by Campaign in partnership with Wondery, A…

Agency brands have been through the wash this year with a laundry load of mergers, acquisitions, closures and some clean and sparkly new shops.

In this episode, the Campaign editorial team discuss how…

"Who wants to advertise on Twitter with a maverick owner?," said Gideon Spanier, Campaign's UK editor in chief in this episode.

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, renamed X, journalists have been busy…