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Opinion

Mark Ritson: British Airways’ ‘Reflections’ campaign flies too close to abstraction

Beautifully shot and artfully restrained, British Airways’ ‘Reflections’ campaign risks being too tasteful for its own good, argues Mark Ritson.

Mark Ritson

Founder, MiniMBA

Artificial Intelligence

Can WPP’s self-serve AI offer Open Pro win without cannibalizing the agency market?

Creative thinking

Piyush Pandey (1955-2025): lessons in life & advertising from Ogilvy’s global creative chief

B2B World Fest

Join the brands, marketers and innovators defining B2B at The Drum’s B2B World Fest 2025

B2B Marketing

From culture to conversion: inside TikTok’s B2B marketing playbook

Brand strategy

How General Motors’ CMO turned a $1bn budget cut into marketing’s greatest rebuild

Brand strategy

Marc Pritchard: Why marketing’s old rules still work in a new world

Ad of the Day

Ad of the Day: Ikea lets its price tags do the talking in life’s important moments

Creative work

Halloween 2025: The spookiest spots so far, from Six Flags to Fanta

Brand strategy

Why Kraft Heinz’s Todd Kaplan believes brand power beats performance data

Opinion

As Pizza Hut’s UK franchise enters administration, where is dining’s middle ground?

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Opinion

As Pizza Hut’s UK franchise enters administration, where is dining’s middle ground?

Opinion

Mark Ritson: Nestlé’s new no-nonsense CEO is rewriting the rules of CPG turnarounds

Opinion

Mark Ritson: British Airways’ ‘Reflections’ campaign flies too close to abstraction

Agency leadership

Brian Lesser’s blueprint for reinvention at WPP Media is not to buy, but to build

Ad of the Day

Ad of the Day: Google Pixel’s ‘Vanilla’ challenges the sameness of smartphones

Brand strategy

How General Motors’ CMO turned a $1bn budget cut into marketing’s greatest rebuild

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Out-of-Home for Drummies show all

From billboards to brand takeovers, OOH is getting smarter. Explore how OOH is merging physical presence with digital intelligence to drive real-world impact.

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Advertisers are savvy and can smell empty promises from across the room. When publishers stretch their definitions to fit into the CTV bucket, they erode trust.

Jamie Finstein

Vice-president, Media Center

IAB

Bourneville can depict people in a bad light because it knows the rules. It created a community of fools, then placed the smarty-pants in the middle.

Paddy Gilmore

CEO and founder

HumourScope

Ads for full-fat products are also big fat opportunities to be inventive and funny, should now-shunned LHF brands turn to radio.

Paul Burke

Founder

Paul Burke Creative

World Creative Rankings 2025 show all

Discover the world’s most awarded creative people, companies and campaigns.

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Dove ‘Change The Compliment’ by Zulu Alpha Kilo

Uber ‘There Are Drivers In Your Area’ by Mother New York

Burger King ‘It’s Only Natural’ by Ingo The Agency

Awards Case Studies show all

The only place to discover the best work from around the world, entered into The Drum Awards. And the only place to read the success stories behind the winning work.

### How Jack Link’s 2024 national jerky day campaign soared with a spectacular drone show

### Inside MGA’s viral holiday campaign: a diss track triumph

### TurboTax’s clever horror film conquered Gen Z’s tax anxiety

### How Oura’s captivating storytelling boosted sales by 42% in a month

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My Creative Career

‘Push limits, but don’t be an asshole’: Uncommon’s Lisa Smith on tenacious design

Agency models

Forrester predicts 15% agency job losses in 2026. Is the ‘agencies as agents’ era over?

My Creative Career

In an ‘age of average,’ Helen Rhodes is determined Grey will ‘embrace the difference’

Brand strategy

‘A rising tide lifts all boats’: Inside the ECB’s push to elevate women’s cricket

Featured video

The Rebel 50's formula for marketing that moves culture

In this episode, The Drum's opinion editor John McCarthy sits down with three CMOs from The Drum's Rebel 50 list: Berit Block of WeTransfer, Andrew Katz of Athletic Brewing Company, and Craig Brommers of American Eagle. The panel unpacks what rebellious marketing truly means - from WeTransfer's advertising-as-art approach, to Athletic Brewing's category creation, to American Eagle's Sydney Sweeney campaign that drove 1 million new customers and a $1.5 billion stock surge. They explore the conviction required to stand firm amid pressure, why long-term community commitment beats short-term stunts, and how purpose-driven rebellion resets both culture and business results.

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The productivity paradox: why marketers must escape the ‘busy-ness’ loop

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The next frontier for commerce media: turning the journey into a marketplace

Promoted

Bursting the marketer-think bubble: your audience isn’t you (and other ’26 planning truths)

Advertising effectiveness

Cookieless collaboration boosts conversions by 41%

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Social Media

How Puma is using its Hyrox partnership to create social media hype

As part of her new monthly social media column, The Drum’s social media executive Tyarna Agyekum reflects on her time in Hamburg with Puma’s global vice-president of brand innovation, Richard Teyssier, to explore how the brand’s Hyrox partnership is driving social media success.

Tyarna Agyekum

Social media exec, The Drum

Opinion

Mark Ritson: British Airways’ ‘Reflections’ campaign flies too close to abstraction

Opinion

Technoplasmosis: the hidden parasite controlling modern marketing

Ad of the Week

Ads of the Week: Ghost cars, whisky winks and festive firsts

Brand strategy

Why Kraft Heinz’s Todd Kaplan believes brand power beats performance data

Brand strategy

PepsiCo Foods’ cultural reboot: ‘We don’t just build brands – we build categories’

### Agencies
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Artificial Intelligence

Can WPP’s self-serve AI offer Open Pro win without cannibalizing the agency market?

It’s a major waypoint in the AI-hastened shift away from the ‘managed services’ model that has long been advertising’s staple. How will the market respond?

Sam Anderson

Intelligence editor, The Drum

Agency leadership

Brian Lesser’s blueprint for reinvention at WPP Media is not to buy, but to build

Artificial Intelligence

Cognitiv bets on Europe as contextual AI comes of age

Agency culture

Ponderosa’s secret sauce: why trust and friendship build better work

The Drum Awards

Judge of the Day: Digitas’s Danisha Lomax encourages purpose as a business strategy

Opinion

Dear Diary: My new agency works in social 4.0... I’m not saying what that is yet

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Ad of the Day

Ad of the Day: Ikea lets its price tags do the talking in life’s important moments

The out-of-home work from ad agency Åkestam Holst NoA is part of the new ‘Wherever Life Goes’ brand platform.

Amy Houston

Senior Reporter, The Drum

Creative work

Halloween 2025: The spookiest spots so far, from Six Flags to Fanta

Creative thinking

Piyush Pandey (1955-2025): lessons in life & advertising from Ogilvy’s global creative chief

Opinion

10 Questions on Advertising with…Vico Benevides, co-founder and CCO, Asia

Ad of the Day

Ad of the Day: Johnnie Walker and Sabrina Carpenter bring retro vibes and wit

Artificial Intelligence

What happens when AI rewrites the cold war as a Broadway musical?

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Social Media

Make an impression: how video is reshaping the consumer journey

The Drum Awards

Judge of the Day: Drew Vernon – why purpose is about doing not polishing

Opinion

WAN-IFRA’s Thomas Jacob on balancing tech adoption with journalistic integrity

Retail media

Walmart pushes retail media full-funnel with CTV, influencers and in-store screens

Brand strategy

How Carl’s Jr & Hardee’s media director Scott Sutton is rewriting rules of QSR marketing

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The next frontier for commerce media: turning the journey into a marketplace

Opinion

The new rules of out-of-home: data, standards & the power of place

Mergers and acquisitions

Amaze CEO Aaron Day on acquiring Food Channel to power next wave of food media

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Martech

Uptempo: the software that aims to be the least sexy part of marketing

Advertising effectiveness

Why the future of ad testing might live inside your head

Promoted

The productivity paradox: why marketers must escape the ‘busy-ness’ loop

The Drum Awards

Judge of the Day: Haley Paas – the real power of media lies in human judgment

Artificial Intelligence

What happens when AI rewrites the cold war as a Broadway musical?

Artificial Intelligence

Andrew Swinand thinks 90% of AI investment is rubbish – and he might just be right

Artificial Intelligence

Kantar’s Jeff Greenspoon on growth, AI & why company’s center of gravity is shifting west

Promoted

Why the Clock, the Crowd, the Context is sports marketing’s new hat trick

### Open Mic
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Experts share their insights on our fast-changing industry.

AdsWizz

Building a data-driven standard for digital audio frequency

Dave Sosson

senior manager, business development,

IPG Mediabrands

Pharma advertising requires a steady hand

Keen Decision Systems

Why your Q4 budget is burning a hole in your pockets

HH Global

Why does the future of retail need more soul?

TOML Collective

How Siebert is using AI to lead the next era of financial marketing

Sierra Six Media Limited

The new trust signal: why search visibility is the real PR metric

The Digital Voice™

If creators are the future of advertising, why can’t they get paid?

Mediasmith

How to build an economic optimization strategy

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The Drum Network

Does Sora 2 prove the ‘dead internet theory’?

Has the internet breathed its last, or does it just need rewilding? Chris Edwards at Tommy considers what Sora 2, and other AI tools, are doing for creativity on the web.

Chris Edwards

Co-Founder & Chief executive officer, Tommy

The Drum Network

Crisis or comedy: when should brands laugh it off?

The Drum Network

Making your B2B comms more human is the best way to connect with audiences

The Drum Network

How AI has changed the search landscape, forever

The Drum Network

Alcohol marketers walk a tightrope. What if bartenders could help tip the balance?

The Drum Network

Is your brand ready for zero-click AI search?

The Drum Network

Experiential provides tech brands things that other channels can’t

The Drum Network

AI is the engine of business transformation; data is its fuel

The Drum Network

Brand experiences create social content algorithms can’t ignore

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Nestlé, Brainlabs & YouTube share how brands are turning CTV fragmentation into resilient reach

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Closing the data gap: how to reclaim lost conversions in the privacy-first era

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Winning the cart: why smart measurement is key to UK retail success

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The ROI reset: 5 strategies shaping the future of marketing effectiveness