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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 Stephen Foster on June 17, 2012
The UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics, set up by PM David Cameron to take the heat off politicians for their cosy relationships with law-breaking newspaper groups, has well and truly backfired. For Cameron and co obviously, because their cringe-making relationships with the media have been under the spotlight. But for his Lordship too, as [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt, leveson inquiry, media ethics, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Tony Blair
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 June 11, 2012
All this social media is having a worrying effect on mainstream media, not least in the desire of editors to get ‘feedback’ from readers, viewers and listeners. For a while now the BBC Radio 5 ‘Live,’ its sports and news station, has been inviting listeners to phone, email, text or Facebook in response to just [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged David Cameron, John Humphrys, Nancy Cameron, pub, radio 4, radio five live, social media, today programme
By Stuart Smith on June 8, 2012
An amusing industry spat has broken out between the Chartered Institute of Marketing and just about everyone else over the way the industry has been handling the vexed issue of marketing to children. One year into the Bailey era, the CIM has released research that apparently shows 85% of parents are unaware of the Government-sponsored [...]
Posted in Agencies, Politics, Research | Tagged advertising association, asa, Chartered Institute of Marketing, David Cameron, David Thorp, Ian Twinn, isba, Letting Children Be Children, Mark Lund, Reg Bailey, The Bailey Report
By Stephen Foster on May 29, 2012
The Leveson Inquiry entertainment goes on, with Tony Blair appearing earlier this week and being engagingly Tony-ish (the bastard), education secretary Michael Gove (a former employee of Rupert Murdoch as a journalist at the The Times) annoying his lordship with his view that a free press means that you have to accept the rough with [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BBC, bbc producer, bskyb, Craig Oliver, David Cameron, George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt, Jeremy Paxman, John Humphrys, leveson inquiry, Michael Gove, news corporation, Nick Robinson, Norman Smith, Robert Jay QC, Rod Liddle, the times, today programme, Tony Blair, tory pr man
By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2012
OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the millions of others who bought into the massively over-priced IPO. This is just Wall Street [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged adam & eve, amv/bbdo, blatherskite, bskyb, David Cameron, ddb london, facebook, google analytics, google news, ipo, Jeremy Hunt, John Lewis, leveson inquiry, media ethics, moreaboutadvertising, multiples, news corporation, omnicom, Rupert Murdoch, social media, stock price, Vince Cable, wall street, west country farmed rabbit, £60m deal
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 10, 2012
That’s what we all want to find out from the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics tomorrow (Friday) when former News of the World and Sun editor, and latterly CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper operation News International, Rebekah Brooks takes the stand. How do we know Dave sent all these text messages, and that Rebekah [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, Charlie Brooks, chipping norton set, David Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson, leveson inquiry, Liz Murdoch, Lord Leveson, Matthew Freud, media ethics, news of the world, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, pr maven, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Jay QC, Rupert Murdoch, text messages
By Stephen Foster on April 25, 2012
I suppose when you’re 81 you can do weary in an extended grilling about your company, your ethics and, most of all, yourself and Rupert Murdoch did just that today, masterfully, when he testified before the UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics. For some reason counsel to the inquiry Robert Jay spent the morning session [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Bill Lawrie, Bobby Simpson, David Cameron, Justin Langer, leveson inquiry, Matthew Hayden, Mrs Thatcher, political favours, Robert Jay, Robert Maxwell, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the times, thomson family, Times Newspapers, £400m losses
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