Silly Season Shorts: 'Ooh cheeky!'

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The 'silly season' prompts stories which usually wouldn't see the light of day so IFAonline's Silly Season Shorts highlights the 'financial services news' hoping to catch the media eye.

Winning awards deserve to be celebrated in style, and Yorkshire Building Society have picked a unique way to do so. A new advertising campaign by YBS, and designed in-house by the company’s graphic design team, has been rolled out across the country inspired by old-fashioned cheeky postcards. As Britain enjoys one of its hottest summers in years, YBS has supplied branches with a series of posters featuring slogans such as: “Ooh Sharon, that’s a big one!” and “What a smashing pair!”. To celebrate winning an award as “lender of the year” for the second year in a row, the campaign also...

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