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By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
Senior advertising executives were probably quite happy to see David and Samantha Cameron scamper up the steps of 10 Downing Street last May. They had endured 13 years of hard Labour. A total ban on cigarette advertising in 2002 was followed in 2007 by severe TV restrictions on the advertising of food high in fat, [...]
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By James Charlton on May 30, 2011
Iconic adman and three-time election-winning Thatcher adviser turned public relations oligarch Lord Bell, speaking at an IPA event in March 2010, summed up election strategy thus: if a country’s ‘feel-good factor’ stays above a certain level, governing parties win elections. If it drops below that level, they are defeated. Sadly, there is no official measurement [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged advertising, Barack Obama, Chris Huhne, coalition government, David Cameron, feel-good factor, Kay Burley, Ken Clarke, Lord Bell, Media, politics, PR, queen, royal wedding, Ryan Giggs, sky
By Angie Dean on May 20, 2011
Not that this was Sir Fred’s intention of course when he took out a super-injunction (gagging order) preventing the press reporting details of an affair with a senior colleague, and even mention of the fact that he was (or had been) a banker. But Sir Fred, who presided over the near collapse of Royal Bank [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged abn amro, bailout, coalition government, footballers, free speech, judges, liberal democrat, Lord Oakeshott, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin
By Stephen Foster on May 6, 2011
Former Labour prime minister Harold Wilson famously observed that a week was a long time in politics, current Liberal Democrat leader and coalition government deputy prime minister Nick Clegg might concur. He would certainly agree that things have changed a lot, and not how he hoped, since his party negotiated the coalition agreement with David [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Barack Obama, Chris Huhne, coalition government, conservatives, David Cameron, Labour Party, liberal democrats, navy seals, Nick Clegg, Osama bin Laden, student tuition fees, Vince Cable, white house
By Stephen Foster on April 18, 2011
The Liberal Democrats are trying to raise over £1m to top up their depleted coffers and central to this much-needed fundraising is a new ‘Leader’s Forum’ which is trying to sign up 50 businesses at £25,000 each. The special on the menu is access to Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg at [...]
Posted in News, Politics, PR | Tagged bell pottinger public affairs, coalition government, leader's forum, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, Peter Bingle, PR Week, westminster lobbyists
By Stephen Foster on April 7, 2011
You couldn’t make it up really. Two weeks ago ago COI boss Mark Lund, the man running the coalition government’s much-reduced advertising service, announced he was leaving and a few days later announced that his new agency Now had won the Waitrose account. Today the Government has announced he’s being allowed to leave two months [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged coalition government, coi, Danny Alexander, Francis Maude, George Osborne, Mark Lund, new agency, now, Waitrose
By Stephen Foster on March 28, 2011
This one passed me by (although not three million other people on YouTube) but the ever-excellent Brand Channel highlighted it today. It’s charming and fun and the flowers are a lovely touch. Should play very well in the UK as horrified students wake up to the fact that greedy universities are about to charge them [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged Brand Channel, coalition government, coca-cola, Coke, happiness machine, tuition fees, viral, Youtube
By Angie Dean on February 2, 2011
Many government quangos have taken a hit under the coalition government, this being a pretty easy way to save money even if the same functions and often people tend to pop up somewhere else. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority is generally sensible and even useful, acting as a barrier to over-enthusiastic legislators. But it seems [...]
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By Stephen Foster on January 26, 2011
Well he certainly thinks so, as this interview with TalkSport radio makes clear. There certainly has been something funny going on at Sky, Keys now resigning and fellow presenter Andy Gray being fired for, frankly, not very much. The smoking gun is very firmly in the hand of newish Sky Sports boss Barney Francis who [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Allan Leighton, Andy Gray, Barney Francis, bskyb, coalition government, comkpetition commission, Jeremy Darroch, Jeremy Hunt, news corporation, news of the world, Richard Keys, sky, sky sports, talksport
By Stephen Foster on January 17, 2011
They seem to be anyway as the IPA’s latest survey into advertiser intentions shows that 22 per cent of those surveyed cut their budgets in the last quarter of 2010 against 17 per cent that increased them. The IPA represents UK advertising, marketing and media agencies. All is not doom and gloom however, on balance [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged adspend, advertising association, asia, coalition government, far east, group m, ipa bellwether report, itv, marketing spend, WPP
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