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By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2013
It’s a neat idea by the Guardian Media Group and agency BBH to sign up press campaigner (and actor, of course) Hugh Grant to plug its new ‘we own the weekend’ platform, the first time I can recall that the two papers have been promoted as one. And after a sober-sided Hugh, testifying to the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged bbh, guardian media group, Hugh Grant, press campaigner, the guardian, the observer, we own the weekend
By Staff on November 22, 2011
This is a funny one: Guardian newspaper owner Guardian News & Media is trying hard to expand in the US but, in the process, is trying to sell ContentNext Media, publisher of the PaidContent and mocoNews tech sites, both of which are popular in the US. The Guardian has been recruiting journalists in the US [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Andrew Miller, AOL, auto trader, contentnextmedia, guardian, guardian media group, guardian website, Mike Arrington, moconews, paidcontent, techcrunch, us
By Stephen Foster on October 3, 2011
Which is presumably one of the things new agency VCCP was aiming for. Although it wouldn’t have known what the new BA campaign from Bartle Bogle Hegarty was going to look like it was a safe bet it wouldn’t take the surprisingly cheap and cheerful approach shown here – a kind of Butlins for Europe [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged audi, bartle bogle hegarty, british airways, carling, Carolyn McCall, chime, comparethemarket.com, coors light, easyJet, Elaine Constantine, europe by easyjet campaign, fastjet, first dividend, guardian media group, meerkats, molson coors, new campaign, Peter Duffy, photographs, ryanair, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, vccp, virgin atlantic
By Paul Simons on September 28, 2011
I have been quite surprised at the debate sparked by the new British Airways campaign and the reaction I’ve had already to my previous comments on the work. There is a clear division of quite strong opinion; one camp is very dismissive of the BA campaign and another camp very supportive. It also becomes more [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged ad agency, BA, Bill Bernbach, british airways, Carolyn McCall, club class, competition, easyJet, fastjet, guardian media group, Paul Simons, ryanair, simons palmer, Sir Stelios, va, vccp, virgin atlantic, virgin upper class
By Stephen Foster on August 2, 2011
Without the UK’s Guardian newspaper we would probably never have learned the full story about phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World (although the New York Times has also done some fine work). In the UK anyway the rest of Fleet Street showed no inclination whatsoever to follow up the original jailing of [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alexander Lebedev, Andrew Miller, auto trader, emap, Gordon Taylor, guardian, guardian media group, i, Independent, losses, Max Clifford, news of the world, observer, phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch, scott trust, website
By Stephen Foster on June 17, 2011
And if that sounds Double Dutch it’s probably because it is. New Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller has announced that he is to cut £25m of print costs as the perennially loss-making paper faces the prospect of running out of money “in three to five years.” Last year the company lost £35m as advertising [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, Andrew Miller, Daily Telegraph, evening paper, guardian, guardian media group, guardian online, losses, online ad model, paywall, the times
By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2011
The deckchairs on the Titanic, aka Guardian Media Group, were reshuffled again today with managing director Tim Brooks, in years gone by one of the founders of Media Week, being made redundant. This is presumably part of new CEO Andrew Miller’s policy of cutting back GMG’s expansionary ambitions, which at one time took in commercial [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, Andrew Miller, guardian, guardian media group, guardian unlimited, manchester guardian, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, scott trust, Tim Brooks
By Stephen Foster on October 18, 2010
You have to hand it to former KGB man Alxander Lebedev, the newish owner of the Independent and London Evening Standard, as he seems determined to show that there’s life in newspapers yet. Now he’s launching what amounts to a shorter, more concise spin-off of the Indy called ‘i’ which looks like an attempt to [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Alexander Lebedev, auto trader, guardian media group, i, Independent, trader media group
By David O'Reilly on September 20, 2010
Former Leo Burnett head honcho Richard Wheatly has always had a thing about tiny radio station Jazz FM. Now he clearly believes he can make some serious money from it. His links with the station go back 20 years when he rescued it from the clutches of the idealistic but resolutely uncommercial founders of the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged android, BlackBerry, guardian media group, iPhone, Jazz FM, leo burnett, nokia, Richard Wheatly
By Stephen Foster on June 14, 2010
Stephen Grabiner, boss of private equity giant Apax Partners’ media operations, is leaving the company in the wake of his last big deal, buying publisher EMAP with Guardian Media Group, going pear-shaped. Apax and GMG coughed up around £1bn for EMAP, which publishes a large number of magazines and whose exhibitions business owns the Cannes [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged apax partners, Carolyn McCall, emap, guardian media group, Stephen Grabiner
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