Much moaning and groaning in the British weekend press about the failure of the Remain campaign in the Brexit vote to allow its agencies to hanmmer Farage, Johnson, Gove and co and, maybe, swing the vote their way. It’s gloves ...

Global media management consultancy ID Comms has announced a worldwide partnership with Population Media Center (PMC), a non-governmental organisation that uses mass media to promote the health and rights of women and girls and protect the environment. ID Comms will ...

BT and Virgin have combined to hymn the praises of the UK’s broadband network, claiming to have invested over £15bn in five years to spruce up the creaking system. They don’t actually mention the latter. Cable outfit Virgin is the ...

More of us are travelling by train, but less happy about it seemingly. So a newish entity called the Rail Delivery Group is running a mixed media campaign from M&C Saatchi, plugging its £50bn plan to improve the railways. It ...

Media network Carat has published its updated forecasts for worldwide ad expenditure, showing a positive outlook for the global market in 2016 and a relatively rosy picture for 2017, powered by digital. Based on data from 59 markets across the ...

As if the press didn’t have enough problems on its hands, with advertising migrating to Google, Facebook et al, it’s now being hammered by vast lawsuits from rich Americans. The Daily Mail is being sued by Melania Trump, Donald’s third ...

Unilever has been busily positioning itself as the Goody Two-Shoes of the commercial world over the past decade or so and now it’s made this ad (more corporate film actually), ‘Bright Future,’ putting its sustainable cards on the table. With ...

Lord Bell (Tim to you and me) is quitting as chairman of PR firm Bell Pottinger to set up a new outfit, Sans Frontières. By the sounds of it Sans Frontières will roam the wilder shore of PR and communications, ...

Once upon a time there was the COI (formerly Central Office of Information) that handled UK government advertising and marketing. In its last knockings it was run by Mark Lund, now head of McCann group in the UK. The COI ...

At the Olympics there’s a team of ten refugees competing under the International Olympics Committee’s banner, trying to demonstrate – what exactly? That the IOC has a heart/conscience? That the Games isn’t all about rampant nationalism and doping? Regarding the ...