The Campaign Podcast

Campaign media editor Beau Jackson, premium content editor Nicola Merrifield and UK editor Maisie McCabe delve into some of the latest news and features. They discuss  M&C Saatchi's hiring of Jo Bacon  – global client lead for Ogilvy and WPP across Unilever – as its chief executive, the departure of R/GA London's  executive strategy director Fern Miller , an...

Campaign's journalists Gurjit Degun, Imogen Watson and Charlotte Rawlings discuss some of the latest news. They cover the Advertising Standards Authority investigating Nationwide's ads; the latest pitching activity from brands including National Express, Molson Coors and USwitch; and the shops shortlisted for the Agency of the Year Awards. The trio also talk about brands' activity around Valentine...

The 58th Super Bowl took place on Sunday 11 February, with the Kansas City Chiefs beating the San Francisco 49ers to become NFL champions. Campaign's creativity and culture editor Gurjit Degun asked Helen Rhodes, executive creative director at Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Regan Warner, executive creative director at McCann London, and Noel Bunting, chief creative officer at Publicis. Poke, to review a se...

Campaign and sister brand, C&IT , join forces to talk all things event marketing with Yorkshire Tea and First Event in this sponsored episode of the Campaign podcast. In this podcast episode, we chat about: The role of event marketing: present, past and future Why the relationship between brand and event agency breaks down Events in Yorkshire Tea’s media mix: to what extent has events contributed...

The Campaign podcast’s new format, now featuring  twice a week , returns today with a deep dive on mental health in adland. Campaign's media editor Beau Jackson speaks to Josh Krichefski, IPA president and Group M chief executive for EMEA and UK, and Sue Todd, chief executive of NABS. Following Krichefski’s  People First Promise launched in January  the pair discuss the state o...

Live radio, watercooler TV moments, stunning out of home billboards - ignore or underestimate them at your peril. Hosted by Bukky from Wavemaker, Harriet from Publicis and Jack from Craft Media. Got a media confession you need to get off your chest? Need some life advice from the gang? Submit your questions here:  https://forms.gle/CXPYw4SDRSqXzZTt8 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

In the first of a new second weekly Campaign podcast, features editor Matt Barker is joined in the studio by media editor Beau Jackson and reporter Shauna Lewis to discuss some of the big stories that have appeared on the Campaign Live site over the past week and look forward to what's happening over the coming few days. The trio chat about Coffee & TV selling a majority stake to Omnicom as it eye...

Campaign work and inspiration editor Imogen Watson is joined by Franki Goodwin, chief creative officer at Saatchi & Saatchi London, Jo McClintock, vice-president brand and marketing at Trainline and Tom Sussman, deputy chief strategy officer at Leo Burnett, to discuss the role that advertising can play amid the UK’s ongoing cost-of-living crisis. They discuss the moral dilemma brands face around e...

Goalhanger’s top podcast talent unites for the first time ever at Campaign & PodPod's Podcast Advertising Summit. Co-founded by Gary Lineker, Jack Davenport and Tony Pastor, Goalhanger has taken the world of podcasting by storm over the past few years. After the popularity of The Rest Is History, the company moved into politics, followed by money, football and entertainment, and shows no signs of...

Campaign features editor Matt Barker is joined in the studio by media editor Beau Jackson to chat about some of the big news stories of the week, including a threat to Havas to have its B-corp status revoked after Havas Media won Shell's global planning and buying account. They also discuss Campaign's most recent Question of the Week, asking whether the industry takes staff departures too seriousl...

Crypto, Metaverse, Futureverse, Readyverse...the AI revolution discussed in verse. Hosted by Bukky from Wavemaker, Harriet from Publicis and Jack from Craft Media. Got a media confession you need to get off your chest? Need some life advice from the gang? Submit your questions here:  https://forms.gle/CXPYw4SDRSqXzZTt8 The Reading List: "Media and Society: Critical Perspectives" edi...

Features editor Matt Barker is joined in the studio by Leo Burnett's chief strategy officer Josh Bullmore and deputy CSO Tom Sussman to discuss the agency's PopPulse research platform and recent event, From Coping to Hoping, providing a snapshot of the mood of modern Britain. Before then, Matt is joined by ace reporter Charlotte Rawlings to discuss the ongoing fallout over the ASA's decision to ba...

Features editor Matt Barker is joined in the studio by UK editor Maisie McCabe and media editor Beau Jackson, as they look back at this week's Campaign Year Ahead Breakfast Briefing. The event featured a series of panel talks and presentations, including discussions around what we can expect for brands, agencies, creativity and media owners as 2024 begins to take shape. And, as well as clips from...

Our intrepid trio investigate cookies, wonks, SVOD, human insight and the return of funny ads. Hosted by Bukky from Wavemaker, Harriet from Publicis and Jack from Craft Media. Got a media confession you need to get off your chest? Need some life advice from the gang? Submit your questions here:  https://forms.gle/CXPYw4SDRSqXzZTt8 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Features editor Matt Barker is joined by creativity and culture editor Gurjit Degun and premium content editor Nicola Merrifield to discuss Campaign's series of Year Ahead roundtables and features and annual Breakfast Briefing Year Ahead live event. The trio also chat about some of the big stories on the Campaign Live site, notably Xavier Rees leaving Havas to join AMV Group as chief executive and...

In the fifth and final of our look backs at the best of 2023 podcasts, a tribute to the late, great Tony Cullingham. The untimely death of Tony Cullingham, head of Bartle Bogle Hegarty London’s incubator course the Barn and former leader of the Watford Advertising Course, elicited an outpouring of love across the ad industry, as creatives thanked the inspirational teacher  for ...

In the fourth of five special editions running daily this week, we look back at some of the best podcasts over the past 12 months. Rani Patel, co-founder and managing director at Calling; Ete Davies, chief operating officer at Dentsu Creative EMEA; and Sharon Lloyd-Barnes, commercial director and inclusion lead at the Advertising Association, join  creativity and culture editor Gurjit Degun t...

It’s that time of the year. Campaign’s feature editor Matt Barker joins UK editor Maisie McCabe, creativity and culture editor Gurjit Degun and reporter Charlotte Rawlings to discuss the 2023 Campaign Lists. The trio chat about the process involved in putting the highly-anticipated industry best-ofs together and how, despite the rather stressful nature of deciding on a final rundown, it can all be...

The media trio wrap up Q4 and discuss how brands have leveraged media differently this festive season. Hosted by Bukky from Wavemaker, Harriet from Publicis and Jack from Craft Media. Got a media confession you need to get off your chest? Need some life advice from the gang? Submit your questions here:  https://forms.gle/CXPYw4SDRSqXzZTt8 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

In the third of five special editions running daily this week, we look back at some of the best podcasts over the past 12 months. Today, we go back to October and the publication of the final quarterly print edition of Campaign, with UK editor Maisie McCabe, art director Chris Barker, creativity and culture editor Gurjit Degun and features editor Matt Barker. The quartet discuss the magazine’s cov...

In the second of five special editions running daily this week, we look back at some of the best podcasts over the past 12 months. Today, we go back to July and the whole Barbenheimer phenomenon that sent everyone a bit doolally over the summer. Campaign’s feature editor Matt Barker is joined in the studio by guests Yewande Ogunkoya from Craft Media, Tom Linay from Digital Cinema Media and Tom Ghi...

Campaign's media editor Beau Jackson meets with Lydia Gough and Steve Harding-Hill from the Aardman animation studio, celebrating 40 years of making commercials. Back in the studio, features editor Matt Barker and reporters Shauna Lewis and Charlotte Rawlings discuss various stories that have appeared on the Campaign site over the past week. The trio chat about changes at EssenceMediacomX, be...

Plus: Working like Mad Men, ByteDance's merry jig, BVOD myths and pass me the Dove soap box. Hosted by Bukky from Wavemaker, Harriet from Publicis and Jack from Craft Media. Got a media confession you need to get off your chest? Need some life advice from the gang? Submit your questions here:  https://forms.gle/CXPYw4SDRSqXzZTt8 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Campaign UK editor-in-chief Gideon Spanier covers some of the biggest global media trends and the changing fortunes of tech giants and agency groups in conversation with Joanna O'Connell from R3 Worldwide, and Ian Jacob, whose portfolio of directorships includes chairing the board at UKOM. Introducing the episode, Spanier and media editor Beau Jackson talk about the biggest stories of the week inc...