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top 20

The Gunn Report has announced the top 20 ads from the 21st Century and we're made up to read that 25% of them were made by W+K! That's right. Five of the best 20 ads of this century (so far) were originated in our network. 
 
We're also incredibly proud here in London that two of those campaigns are home grown from our Hanbury Street office with Honda 'Cog' and 'Grrr' amongst the top 20. 
 
 
Also featured are Nike 'Write the Future' and 'Tag', and Old Spice 'The Man Your Man Could Smell Like' from W+K Amsterdam and Portland respectively. 
 
 
No time to rest on our laurels though. A quick pat on the back all round and back to making the best work of the rest of the century for us. 

what a shindig

We've been working with crisps brand Tyrrells since we won the account towards the end of 2014. We've loved getting under the (potato) skin of the products (sorry), diving into the brand, getting to know the brilliant clients and putting on a collective 1kg per week in weight just tasting the bad boys.

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And today we launched the brand's first ever advertising campaign. No longer reliant solely on PR, word of mouth and just retail drives, Tyrrells has found its voice. And it's an incredibly English and eccentric voice which quite rightly places the crisps at the heart of spontaneous gatherings.

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After all, these are the finest crisps in the world and the ones you want to be whipping out when that casual Christmas catch-up at home turns into an all-nighter, by way of three glasses of mulled wine.

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The outdoor campaign bursts onto billboards of London and the South East over the next couple of weeks. And when you do spy one of the posters, perhaps ponder that each crisp was shot by photographer Qiu Yang over 30 times to capture all the levels of focus and details to showcase it in its glory. Hence why it took 21 hours of photography all-told! Plus the hours searching through 360 bags of crisps to find the 'hero' crisps to feature.

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