By Stephen Foster on February 6, 2012
How do you top last year’s Eminem Super Bowl epic for Chrysler? Sign up American icon Clint Eastwood to tell 100m or so viewers in the US and countless more around the world that it’s only “half time in America” and the old country, led by Detroit, is coming out fighting in the second. The [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged chrysler, Clint Eastwood, Eminem, Hal Riney, half time in america, imported from detroit, morning in america, Ronald Reagan, super bowl ad, wieden+kennedy portland
By Stephen Foster on January 30, 2012
Well maybe not Labour leader Ed Miliband although it’s surprising that no-one has reminded him yet that RBS boss Stephen Hester’s generous deal at the nearly-nationalised bank was struck by former Labour PM Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling. And that it was Labour that decided that some public sector ‘workers’, like GPs and hospital [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alistair Darling, bankers, bonus, coalition government, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, hunting pinks, Labour, pr disaster, RBS, Stephen Hester, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on January 26, 2012
It’s pretty hard to think of any UK company that’s been as deep in the mire as News International, the News Corporation-owned company that published the recently-extinguished phone-hacking News of the World. But News is reviewing its £28m account according to Campaign, suggesting that the ever-combative company has decided that sitting in the corner and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged ad agency review, CHI, engine group, Mazher Mahmood, mindshare, news of the world replacement, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, sunday mirror, Sunday Times, the sun on sunday, the times, trinity mirror, wcrs
By Stuart Smith on January 20, 2012
British Airways may not be the brand it was when the Saatchi brothers landed Manhattan at Heathrow nearly 30 year ago. But as national flag carrier, it still packs a punch: it’s still the largest UK airline based on fleet size, number of international flights and international destinations. What’s more, as a founder member of [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged BA, boris island, british airways, David Cameron, heathrow, iag, iberia, landing slots, new london airport, thames estuary, Willie Walsh
By Stephen Foster on January 19, 2012
Money talks and News Corporation’s money clearly talks louder than most as most of the people who brought cases against the company for phone hacking seem to be settling for the company’s money (far less than those smart cookies Gordon Taylor of the PFA and PR man Max Clifford settled for) rather than taking their [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Chris Bryant, Gordon Taylor, john Prescott, Jude Law, Max Clifford, news corporation, out of court settlements, phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on January 12, 2012
Do they still call Ken Livingstone Red Ken? Well London mayor Boris johnson probably does. And Tory Boris, who faces re-election this summer, is coming under fire from his opponent, former mayor Labour’s Ken Livingstone, who has recruited newly-formed BETC London to produce this ad, accusing Boris of picking Londoner’s pockets by putting up tube [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged betc london, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, david jones, election, havas, Ken Livingstone, london mayor, Matthew Charlton, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, pickpocket ad, republican nomination race, tube fares
By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2012
The battle for the Republican presidential nomination might not be all over yet as clear leader Mitt Romney (who nobody seems actually to like) comes under fierce fire from this ‘When Mitt Romney came to town’ campaign from Republican lobby group Winning Our Future which backs flagging rival and former House of Representatives speaker Newt [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bain capital, Barack Obama, Jimmy Goldsmith, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, presidential race, republican nomination, vulture capitalist, when Mitt Romney came to town campaign, winning our future
By Angie Dean on January 10, 2012
Canada’s Environmental Defence, the environmental organization which led the campaign for the ban on Bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles, is now trying to alert Canadians to the many cancer-causing, hormone-disrupting and allergy-inducing substances contained in the personal care products they use every day. The campaign urges the federal government to ban harmful ingredients in [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Aleysa Young, baby bottles, bisphenol a, cosmetics campaign, environmental defence, L'Oreal, open, partner films, Rick Smith, try to look pretty without poisoning yourself
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