Tagline

This week we time-travel to 2009 to revisit BBH London’s five-minute brand-history film for Johnnie Walker, starring Robert Carlyle in a virtuosic performance, shot in a single take. It’s a story of great copywriting, top-notch camerawork and theatrical visual storytelling—as well as soaking rain, insects, and last-minute problems with legal. Presented by GSTV.

This week we serve up an ice-cold glass of nostalgia as we look at the making of the culture-busting “Got Milk?” campaign from Goodby Silverstein & Partners. It’s the story of a powerful insight, darkly comic creative, a lightning rod of a tagline, and a client who loved partnerships and parodies and gave the world’s blandest product advertising’s hottest campaign. Presented by GSTV.

On this bonus episode, we catch up with Fernando Machado, who made waves this week by announcing his exit from Burger King and RBI after seven years to join Activision as CMO. We take a stroll down memory lane, as Fer walks us through his many of his greatest BK hits (he even picks his favorite) and also reveals why he’s making the move to gaming. Presented by GSTV.

This week we unpack another megaviral ad, McCann's "Dumb Ways to Die," the little Australian train safety video that became a global sensation. We chat with the creatives, clients, animators and musicians who crafted the delightfully twisted song and music video, and we look at how McCann tried to think like a record label in promoting the campaign. Presented by GSTV.

We close out Women's History Month with a look back at one of the great female-empowerment anthems ever made by an advertiser, "Like a Girl" from P&G's Always. Hear the whole story of the social experiment turned viral film turned Super Bowl showstopper from the folks who made it. Presented by GSTV.

This week we don our Darth Vader mask and travel back to the 2011 Super Bowl to look at the VW commercial that Force-choked all rivals into submission that year. It's a story of great craft around some beloved IP, and a Sophie's choice that would change Super Bowl advertising forever. Presented by GSTV.

In our inaugural episode, we look at the making of the iconic "Most Interesting Man in the World" campaign from Dos Equis, from the creative team's sarcastic initial pitch, to the battle to sell it through, to the frightening first shoot day, to the demise of the celebrated campaign a decade later. Presented by GSTV.

Tim Nudd explains how Tagline came about, and what to expect from the first season. Tagline premieres March 15.