The redesign debuts on August 7 and will be supported by a TV advertising campaign through Quiet Storm, which breaks the following day. The campaign will run across Sky One, Channel 4, Channel 5 and E4 for two months.
More's fresh look includes new editorial content, chief among which is a 20-page celebrity section called Snoop!. If that sounds familiar it's because it is rather akin to Sneak!, Emap's teenage celebrity magazine.
The TV campaign features two young women sitting side by side on a sofa reading the new-look More!. Dramatic background music plays to represent the risque content the magazine carries.
The camera then zooms out to show that one of the young women in the photo is playing the dramatic music on a keyboard on her lap.
Trevor Robinson, managing director and creative director of Quiet Storm, said: "Advertising for More! magazine is akin to cigarette advertising in the sense that regulations prevent you from getting across some of the risque and true brand essence of the magazine. With this new work, I believe we've managed to find an original way of getting the true brand values across without causing offence."
Robinson, the former HHCL & Partners creative, has created some of the industry's more anarchic campaigns such as Pot Noodle and famously Tango's "You''ve been Tangoed" slaphead commercials.
Although hugely popular, the Tango campaign was banned when school children started emulating in the playground the orange bald man who went round slapping people's heads every time they drank some of the drink.
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