“Would you like to go to Cannes?” The words anyone in the advertising industry wants to hear from their boss’ mouth. And this year, I heard it. With some luckily-timed pitches, I was drafted onto the St Luke’s team headed to the 2019 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity at the last minute. Like 99% of the ad industry, I had never been to Cannes. But I’d heard about it. The sun, the parties, the rosé, and, inevitably, the awards. I’d seen senior management swan of

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2019 is officially over – that time of year where brands and agencies from far and wide descend on the sunny, coastal French town to celebrate the creative tech and innovation of marketing communications. It is one of the biggest events in the advertising industry’s calendar. A small team from St Luke’s attended the festival this year as part of the IPA and DTI’s Createch trade mission, the highlight of which was our CEO Neil

St Luke’s are in full on celebration mode having been nominated for TWO awards this week for our work on the ‘Rock The Ribbon’ ad campaign for the National AIDS Trust (NAT). To commemorate the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day, NAT revamped its message to help destigmatise the red awareness ribbon. We worked with NAT to deliver the ‘Rock the Ribbon” campaign, featuring Childish Gambino’s choreographer, Sherrie Silver, and the recognisable voice of Stephen Fry. As HIV still c

St Luke’s and the National AIDS Trust encourage the world to Rock the Ribbon for World Aids Day We are so proud to have just launched our global World Aids Day campaign for the National AIDS Trust.  Here’s the story of the campaign: The Issue: fear and apathy The charity, although small in size, has a huge responsibility. Every year on December 1st, NAT are responsible for coordinating the UK’s contribution to World AIDS Day, through galvanising, coordinating and resourcing c

Hurrah! We’ve only gone and won Oystercatchers 2018 best place to work! Our second accolade this year after winning Campaign’s best place to work earlier in the year. How did we do it? We’ll it’s all down to our Healthy, Wealthy, Wise philosophy that allows us all to realise our potential and create our best work. We come to work every day to create bold Agenda Setting Ideas that push life forward and these ideas wouldn’t exist without the lovely people we work with. With a b

St Luke’s are immensely proud to announce to global launch of our brand new positioning for Tanqueray Gin: ‘Unmistakably Tanqueray’, which celebrates the defining and distinctive taste of a 180-year-old recipe. The idea was born out of the need to disrupt the category and reaffirm Tanqueray’s quality to a growing audience, in a booming but overcrowded world of gin. And while the brand has a number of proof points, such as provenance, ingredients and accolades, our research ke

We are very excited to announce that Genius, the gluten-free food brand, has appointed St. Luke’s as their communications agency. Not only could this mean exciting bread-based treats for us, but we will also be helping to spread tasty bakery products to a whole section of the population who currently avoid them, as they go about managing their gluten-free diets. Genius believes that no one should be denied the joy excellent bread brings. It was this belief, held by founder Lu

We’ve made it! The big 21! Time to celebrate! Last week we partied in style, singing a brilliant rendition (even if we do say so ourselves) of ‘Happy Birthday’, blowing out our birthday candles, showering under glitter cannons and eating a large amount of cheese before bustling down to Little Portland Street for the mother of all cooking classes. 50 of us kitted up in our agency-branded aprons and whipped up a 3-course feast of butternut squash tortellini, followed by roast l