By Stephen Foster on May 3, 2013
The big story of the past two weeks has been uber-successful New York (and Sydney and Auckland) agency Droga5′s decision to venture into further territories; initially London. But do such micro-networks really have a chance of succeeding? BBH tried it with a string of half a dozen agencies across across the world and it didn’t [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, PR | Tagged BBC, bbh, Dave Droga, droga5, Jimmy Savile, Linus Karlsson, mccann, mccann melbourne, micro-network, Stuart Hall, webbys
By Paul Simons on February 15, 2013
The word ‘consumer’ is an irritating misuse of language. This short piece is a soap box moment that’s been waiting to get out for some time. I have a massively irritating issue with the word ‘consumer’. I hear more and more commentators talking about ‘consumers’ out of context. It is turning in to one of [...]
Posted in Analysis, Clients, Media, News | Tagged banks, BBC, consumers, customers, John Billett, Paul Simons, use of language
By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2012
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, christmas, Dan Wieden, David Petraeus, IPG, Jimmy Savile, Lord Patten, Michael Roth, publicis groupe, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tony Hall, WPP
By Stephen Foster on November 22, 2012
Admittedly Lord Hall – one-time BBC head of news Tony Hall – isn’t quite as grand as former Tory minister and last governor of Hong Kong Lord (Chris) Patten but it’s a sign that egalitarianism in the UK never quite made it across the line that both the chairman and the new director general of [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, George Entwistle, Greg Dyke, Jimmy Savile, Lord Patten, newsnight, Tim Davie, Tony Hall
By Stephen Foster on November 15, 2012
It comes as no surprise that former Radio One DJ Dave Lee Travis (left), the self-styled ‘hairy monster,’ has been questioned by Inspector Plod as part of his inquiries into sexual shenanigans at the BBC in the wake of the Jimmy Savile revelations (which go far beyond bad behaviour, of course). For some reason or [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, Camilla Long, Dave Lee Travis, groping, hairy monster, Jimmy Savile, police
By Stephen Foster on November 12, 2012
I only ask because there’s post from BBC business editor Robert Peston on his BBC Online blog today commencing: Helen Boaden and Steve Mitchell have been asked to surrender all their responsibilities as head and deputy head of BBC News, pending the results of the Pollard inquiry, I have learned. “I have learned,” indeed. This [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged BBC, George Entwistle, John Humphrys, Robert Peston, Tim Davie
By Stephen Foster on November 11, 2012
BBC director-general George Entwistle has resigned following a staggeringly poor showing on the BBC’s own Today programme yesterday morning and former Pepsico marketing boss Tim Davie (pictured) has taken over as interim director general. Davie must regard this as a mixed blessing – he was due to take over as head of BBC World in [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, bbc world, George Entwistle, Helen Boaden, Jimmy Savile, Lord McAlpine, Lord Pattenr, newsnight, PepsiCo, Tim Davie
By Stuart Smith on October 23, 2012
Considering the gloating opportunities, @rupertmurdoch has been abnormally restrained. Apart from a terse but prescient: “Saville (sic)- BBC story long way to run. BBC far the biggest, most powerful organization in UK,” nothing has been said on the subject since October 14th. Maybe the old boy has got bored with his favourite hobby, the British [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BBC, George Entwistle, Jimmy Savile scandal, news corporation, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on October 22, 2012
There’s nothing quite like the BBC when it goes into one of its periodic bouts of self-analysis and we had another blast this morning on the Today programme about its treatment of the Jimmy Savile affair. The BBC’s Panorama is airing a programe tonight examining whether or not another BBC programme Newsnight pulled an item [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, George Entwistle, Helen Boaden, Jimmy Savile, Meirion Jones, newsnight, panorama, Peter Rippon, Steve Hewlett
By Stuart Smith on October 19, 2012
For years he wove a cynical circle of deceit around the community, perpetrating the most heinous misdeeds while masquerading as a benefactor of mankind. Of course, there were a few whispers. Doubters who thought the myth he had wrapped around himself was too good to be true. Alleged victims of his corruption who knew for [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, PR | Tagged BBC, charities, Jimmy Savile, Lance Armstrong, livestrong, nike, reputations, sponsors, stoke mandeville hospital, Tour de France
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