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By Stephen Foster on November 6, 2012
It’s election day in the US of course, the end of a protracted campaign which has seen $2.8bn spent on ads with nary a decent one but never mind. And in a tight race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney it’s quite possible that we’ll see a re-run of the Bush-Gore stand-off which all came [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, campaigns & grey, csr, Koko Pimentel, mid-term elections, Mitt Romney, philippines, us elections, zombie voters
By Staff on October 30, 2012
Yet another US election ad caught with its integrity down. This time it’s all about Mitt Romney desperately currying favour in the battlefield state of Ohio by resorting to what appear to be – er – lies about Chrysler’s employment policy. The automobile industry being a big employer in those rust-belt parts, any suggestion that [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, chrysler, election ads, jeep, Mitt Romney, Ohio
By Stephen Foster on October 24, 2012
Clint Eastwood produced a rather bizarre turn at the Republication convention (addressing an empty chair) and here he is again, fronting up for Mitt Romney in one of the many PAC-funded ads that the US bizarrely allows in elections (PACs are collections of party supporters with few spending limits). So it’s not an official Romney [...]
Posted in Creative, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, chrysler, Clint Eastwood, halt-time in america, Mitt Romney, pacs, republicans, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on September 3, 2012
Usually the importance of advertising is elections is overrated; most people have more or less made their minds up before the vote so ads, however cunning and persuasive, only operate at the margins. But the US presidential election will, according to the polls and pundits, be decided at the margins. According to some estimates there [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, Hal Riney, Mitt Romney, political advertising, Ronald Reagan, us presidential election
By Stephen Foster on August 7, 2012
Now we’re not Mitt Romney supporters here, the man sounds as though he’s hardly been out of America and, when he has, as on his recent quick trip to Europe, he almost (almost) makes you think fondly of George W. Bush. And American presidential campaigns don’t pull their punches, including the ads. But the process [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, democrats, Joe Soptic, Mitt Romney, obamacare, republicans, us presidential campaign
By Staff on June 19, 2012
Which is hardly surprising but also all the more reason to hope that US president Barack Obama and his allies (just about everyone outside Europe) can knock some sense into austerity junkies Germany’s Angela Merkel and even the UK’s David Cameron at the current G20 summit in Mexico. Media agency ZenithOptimedia has cut its closely-watched [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics, Research | Tagged ad spending forecast, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, cuts, David Cameron, eurozone, g20, Greece, spain, zenithoptimedia
By Paul Simons on June 13, 2012
One of the most over-used expressions at the moment in the US is ‘reaching out’ as in ‘thank you for reaching out to us’. I guess it means making contact. It carries more perceived weight than ‘thank you for contacting us’ as it implies some kind of herculean effort to ‘reach out’. The Four Tops [...]
Posted in Finance, Politics, PR | Tagged american speech, Barack Obama, David Cameron, Paul Simons, us business jargon
By Stephen Foster on May 18, 2012
For a couple of years at least the UK media markets have been defying gravity, showing reasonable growth (in the circumstances) despite a wider economy that’s stagnant at best. Over the weekend UK PM David Cameron (pictured) will be hobnobbing with the G8 group of industrial nations at Barack Obama’s Camp David weekend place. He [...]
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By Stephen Foster on April 16, 2012
Channel 4 and its one-time big brother ITV have their critical successes from time to time but, boy, don’t they milk them for all their worth. Last night’s episode of Homeland, the topical thriller starring Damian Lewis and Claire Danes (apparently it’s Barack Obama’s favourite programme – hope he’s learning some useful counter-terrorism lessons) was [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Barack Obama, blockbuster movies, Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, homeland, moneysupermarket.com, too many ads, video games
By Stephen Foster on March 13, 2012
Rebekah Brooks (pictured) and her former racehorse trainer husband Charlie have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard’s Operation Weeting probe into phone hacking – the second time for Rebekah, this time on suspicion of ‘perverting the course of justice.’ Today is the first day of National Hunt racing’s Cheltenham Festival, which the horsey couple [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Boulton, arrests, Barack Obama, BBC, charges, Charlie Brooks, Cheltenham Festival, Clive Goodman, David Cameron, Glenn Mulcaire, horse racing, Jame Murdoch, News International, news of the world, Nick Robinson, operation elveden, operation weeting, payments to police, police horse, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, sky
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