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By Staff on January 4, 2013
The ongoing Channel 4/GroupM stand-off is rather worrying for advertisers for number of reasons. Campaign reports that GroupM’s refusal to accept a renewal of the same terms it was offered in its last two year deal -hardly an unreasonable offer – is because of ‘pressure from new business wins,’ presumably meaning it’s promised new clients [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged airtime row, BT, carat, Channel 4, daily express, daily mail, groupm, new business, unilever, WPP
By Stephen Foster on August 13, 2012
Magazines ain’t what they used to be and one of the figures from their great post-war age Helen Gurley Brown (left), editor of Cosmopolitan for decades and author of Sex and the Single Girl, has died aged 90. Cosmo, the flagship of the Hearst Corporation, was quite a scandalous title in its day, notorious for [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged cosmopolitan, daily mail, hearst corporation, Helen Gurley Brown, sex and the single girl
By Stuart Smith on July 11, 2012
“Millionaire at centre of ‘fat cat’ row will carry the Olympic torch through streets of East London” howled the Daily Mail, in one of its ‘world exclusives’. Downpage, there were 57 varieties of indignation from the good folk of the north-eastern London borough of Redbridge, all queuing up to express their disgust and dismay at [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, PR | Tagged daily mail, olympic torch, redbridge, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
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 [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, bully pulpits, camp david, coalition government, daily mail, David Cameron, deficit reduction, france, Francois Hollande, ft, g8, George Osborne, Greece, leveson inquiry, liberal democrats, Martin Wolf, news corporation, Nick Clegg, Sir Martin Sorrell, slash and burn, Sly Bailey, spain, stagnation, Sun, trinity mirror, uk economy, Vince Cable, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 4, 2012
Sly Bailey, Sylvia as was, has quit her job as CEO of Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People plus a collection of local papers in an argument with shareholders over her £1.7m pay package. Bailey, a former IPC Magazines boss before she took over at the Mirror in 2003, faced [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated, cost-cutting, daily mail, daily mirror, digital onslaught, ipc magazines, local papers, news corporation, News International, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Bailey, Sun, sunday mirror, Telegraph, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on April 6, 2012
According to the Daily Mail it is anyway: BSkyB is paying £250,000 per episode for series five of Mad Men but audiences have slumped to 47,000 for the third episode (in stark contrast to the 355,000 it garnered on BBC digital channel BBC4 for the last series), costing Sky over £5 per viewer. Why the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged 000 viewers, 47, bbc4, bskyb, daily mail, Dustin Hoffman, game of thrones, luck, mad men series five, madison avenue, Murdoch, Nick Nolte, ratings disaster, sky atlantic, £5 per viewer
By Stuart Smith on April 2, 2012
Cabinet Office minister Francis ‘jerry can’ Maude’s legendary communications skills were on full display last week, with a gaffe that caused the Government its worst wobble since the election. Let’s hope this is not an omen. Maude (pictured) is, among other responsibilities, the minister in charge of direct government communications. Meaning: he has been the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged audir commission, change4life, coi, daily mail, drink drive, Francis Maude, gcc, government communications centre, Jenny Grey, nhs, son of coi, uk government, Wendy Proctor
By Stephen Foster on March 23, 2012
All these clever clogs chancellors of the UK exchequer come unstuck now and then (look at Gordon Brown) and hyper-ambitious current incumbent George Osborne (pictured) may just have made his big mistake by trying to sneak through his now-notorious ‘Granny Tax,‘ a sneaky way to try to ensure that pensioners (who by and large are [...]
Posted in News, Politics, PR | Tagged Boris Johnson, budget, daily mail, David Cameron, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, granny tax, Ken Livingstone, Labour, london mayor, olympics, tory succession
By Stephen Foster on January 13, 2012
It’s very rare to see a real live media magnate skewered in public but that’s what happened yesterday to Express Newspapers (and Channel 5) owner Richard Desmond yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics in the UK. Desmond even tells the Inquiry’s probing lead counsel Robert Jay that he doesn’t understand what the word [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged channel 5, daily express, daily mail, daily star, Kate and Gerry McCann, leveson inquiry, Madeleine McCann, media ethics, news of the world, ok magazine, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, richard desmond, Robert Jay QC
By Stephen Foster on December 30, 2011
Here we have singer Rihanna getting ‘em off (or possibly on, it’s hard to tell) on behalf of Armani Jeans. And the UK’s Daily Mail says this has been designated 2011′s sexiest commercial by Ad Age. But Ad Age says it never did. Sounds like another case of the British tabloid press never letting the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Ad Age, armani jeans, daily mail, dior, fashion, fashionistas, Grace Kelly, hooker chic, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Rihanna, sexiest ad
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