By Stephen Foster on April 13, 2012
There’s a new kid on the sports block, Qatar-based Al Jazeera’s Be In Sport channel (or beIN SPORT as it styles itself) and it has chosen TBWA Paris to handle its imminent launch in France alongside sibling media agency OMD. Be In Sport has won the pay-TV rights in France for the Euro finals this [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged 2022 world cup, al jazeera, be in sport launch, bskyb, Disney, eru finals 2012 and 2016, espn, fifa, france, omd, qatar, tbwa paris
By Stuart Smith on November 20, 2011
Well, what a week of wasted moral outrage that was, even if it did produce one of The Sun’s finest headlines for a very long time. Make no mistake. “Splatter Blatter” will have sold extra copies of the red-top, but do nothing to remove the Teflon Man himself, whose life’s achievement has been to carve [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2018 world cup, adidas, Bernie Eccelstone, big brand sponsors, coca-cola, David Beckham, David Cameron, emirates, fifa, formula one, hyundai, Max Mosley, racism, Sepp Blatter, Sony, sport, Visa
By Stephen Foster on October 17, 2011
World rugby’s governing body the International Rugby board rules with an iron hand, far more so than football bodies FIFA and UEFA, but the success of the Rugby World Cup (in TV viewing terms if not necessarily the quality of the rugby) is brewing up a big row with New Zealand’s All Blacks, the hosts [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged all blacks, brand finance, england, fifa, international rugby board, irb, kiwis, manchester united, new zealand, new zealand rugby union, professionalism, rugby world cup, sponsor row, tv viewing, uefa
By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
David Bernstein is no stranger to controversy. He was non-executive chairman of French Connection during its “f.c.u.k” ad campaign in 1997, created by the mercurial Trevor Beattie at TBWA and banned from time to time by the Advertising Standards Authority. It was ultimately successful for the clothing label. Bernstein has also a held a number [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged argentina, british press, corruption, David Bernstein, Dennis Skinner, falkland islands, fifa, football association, Helen Mirren, Julio Grondona, manchester city, Sepp Blatter, Sun, Telegraph, The Queen
By Stephen Foster on January 25, 2011
Well it’s no doubt worth lots of money to someone or other (the media broker presumably) but card giant Visa must have a few worries about its decision to team with News International for exclusive plugging rights for its sponsorship and ‘presenting partner’ status (whatever that may be) for Team 2012, the British Olympics team. [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, PR | Tagged drugs, fifa, News International, news of the world, olympics 2012, pay walls, Rebekah Brooks, Sepp Blatter, Sun, Sunday Times, team 2012, the times, Visa
By Stephen Foster on January 12, 2011
Simon Greenberg, who has just been appointed head of corporate affairs at News International, is used to stiff challenges. From 2004 to 2009 he was comms head at Chelsea Football Club, battling a sceptical and sometimes defiantly hostile bunch of sports hacks over the activities of moneybags proprietor Roman Abramovitch and various managers including the [...]
Posted in Creative, News, Politics, PR | Tagged 2018 england world cup bid, Andy Coulson, bksyb, chelsea fc, David Cameron, fifa, Jose Mourinho, london evening standard, Matthew Anderson, news of the world, Peter Kenyon, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Roman Abramovitch, Rupert Murdoch, Sepp Blatter, Simon Greenberg
By Stephen Foster on December 23, 2010
It’s hard to find anybody with a bad word to say about David Bernstein, the former Manchester City chairman and FCUK director, who has been elected chairman of the Football Association. But nobody has many brave words to say for him either. Alan Sugar, who would have liked the job, tweeted: “He never offends anyone [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics | Tagged Alan Sugar, Alisher Usmanov, arsenal, David Bernstein, David Dein, fcuk, fifa, football association, pentland, reebok, Sepp Blatter, Sir David Richards, Sir Keith Mills
By Stephen Foster on December 14, 2010
But what’s it got to do with them? Well UK supermarket group William Morrison was one of the sponsors of the unsuccessful England 2018 World Cup bid, investing £1m in a process costing £18m that gained just two votes out of 22 and a first round exit when the votes of the FIFA executives were [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged 2018 world cup bid, Alan Shearer, fifa, legal action, Morrisons, Sepp Blatter, Switzerland
By Stephen Foster on December 2, 2010
I heard this first on the radio and there was definitely an outbreak of Beatles-type screaming before FIFA boss Sepp Blatter had actually announced the winner of the competition to host the 2018 World Cup. For some reason the skewed old Swiss watch repeated himself but that didn’t stop the Russian supporters bursting into cheers [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged David Beckham, David Cameron, england, fifa, Prince William, qatar, Roman Abramovitch, russia, Sepp Blatter, world cup 2018
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