On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents The industry run-regulator, Ad Standards, logged nearly 5,000 complaints across 252 ads this year, and found that ...

Created with AI assistance. Quality assured by Metro editors. Save The Children’s Christmas advert might be the best ad of the season, and it may have duped a lot of viewers. With a festive jingle, ...

Cadbury’s ‘Secret Santa’ has been crowned 2025’s most effective Christmas ad, according to new Kantar research, demonstrating the power of repeat creative. Kantar’s consumer testing found five of the ...

Karen opens up on 'proud mum' moment after seeing pet Marley on the box KAREN MURRAY was stunned when she turned on the telly and saw her beloved cat starring in Boots’ Christmas advert. She recalled ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails With only a limited proportion of rooms genuinely offered at the advertised prices across ...

Adverts by four of Britain's biggest hotel and travel firms have been banned for stating misleading minimum prices for rooms. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints against the ...

Imagine one night, you're scrolling through social media on your phone, and the ads start to look remarkably familiar. They're decked out in your favourite colours, are featuring your favourite music ...

Love them or hate them, it’s that time of year when brands start debuting their annual Christmas adverts in the hopes of tugging on our heartstrings (and, of course, getting us to spend some coin in ...

As the embers of bonfire night slowly cool in the rain, our minds are turned to Christmas in its full commercial glory. It’s funny how at this time of year people start to look at ads – the same ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For the second year running, Coca-Cola has made a version of its iconic “Holidays are coming” Christmas advert ...