AdMission

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Every week, advertising gurus Russel Howcroft and Freddie Young offer a glimpse behind the curtain of the world’s most talked about marketing campaigns, brands, ideas, advertising news and industry screw ups.

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Super Bowl: The winners of advertising's biggest day of the year

We're back with our hot takes from the Super Bowl and talk about why brands spend millions for 30 seconds on advertising's biggest day of the year. We watch: 'The Choice' from Pepsi, 'Bananas' from Instacart, 'America Needs Neighbours Like You' from Redfin x Rocket Mortgage & 'American Icons' from Budweiser. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

44 min
12/08/2025

The Netflix takeover of Hollywood

We watch Droga5’s new 196 campaign & discuss what Netflix’s $83B move to buy Warner Bros means for Hollywood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

45 min
11/25/2025

Shania Twain, Uber & the Hollywood marketing crisis

We share our thoughts on the new Uber x Shania Twain spot, Cowboy Colostrum, inside the Hollywood marketing crisis and ask if creativity is dead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

46 min
11/18/2025

'The best 20 seconds of advertising produced in the history of advertising'

Russ & Freddie break down IKEA’s new campaign, look at Reuters’ first brand campaign in 175 years, unpack the viral Friend AI pendant takeover of the NYC subway and Heineken’s pitch-perfect parody response. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

42 min
11/10/2025

Robots, John Lewis & Coca Cola

Christmas campaigns have started, subscription addictions, robots & ads that make you cry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

45 min
10/27/2025

How cereal built America

Russ is in Tokyo, a history of cereal advertising and the Apple x Jane Goodall spot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

50 min
10/20/2025

Social media ban; 'This campaign has me worried'

Russ & Freddie look at the social media ban, an 'utterly glorious' ad from The Ordinary & why the beauty industry is a fabrication people are happy to go along with. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

48 min
10/13/2025

De Beers campaign has 'missed the mark'; 7-Eleven nails it

Russ & Freddie discuss De Beers' latest diamond campaign, 7-Eleven as a portrait of modern life and what people are actually looking at on TikTok. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

50 min

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Trailer: AdMission

This podcast missed the mark. The premise is all wrong - backwards, even.People want to buy things that make them smarter, stronger, safer, sexier and rich. Nobody wants a podcast about the people behind the fantasies - brought to them by the biggest and the smallest names in this industry.People today want beautiful lies.Nobody wants a podcast about advertising. ‘AdMission’, with advertising guru Russel Howcroft and up-and-comer Freddie Young from ‘Good One Creative ', tells the uncensored story behind the world’s most talked about brands, ideas, marketing campaigns, advertising news and industry screw ups. Russel and Freddie are the ‘then’ and ‘now’ of advertising - Russel, with a life-time of knowledge and experience shaped in the free for all days of advertising, and Freddie, a millennial working in a fractured media landscape dominated by strict standards and Tik-Tok. This no spin podcast offers sharp insight to the world's biggest stories in advertising, media and business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02/08/2024

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A podcast filling a gap

04/12/2024

Grumpyhistory

I had looked for advertising and PR podcasts in the past, but really just found more SEO or viral marketing/personal marketing type podcasts things. There was one other really good PR podcast, but it was a super limited series. This is well done and well told.

Every week, advertising gurus Russel Howcroft and Freddie Young offer a glimpse behind the curtain of the world’s most talked about marketing campaigns, brands, ideas, advertising news and industry screw ups.