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By Stephen Foster on March 13, 2012
Rupert Murdoch’s new Sunday version of the Sun is selling about 2.7m copies after three weeks, down from week one’s 3.2m but slightly up on week two. Selling at 50p against Trinity’s Mirror’s £1 Sunday Mirror and People obviously helps of course (both the latter have stabilised after dropping 30 per cent or so with [...]
Posted in News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, campaign, Chris Blackhurst, Daily Telegraph, guardian, i, Independent, news of the world, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Michael Parkinson, Stefano Hatfield, Sun, sun on sunday, sundaymirror, the times, thelondonpaper, three little pigs, uk newspaper sales, X-Factor, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on December 6, 2011
There’s no-one more free market than Tim Bell, Lord Bell as he now is, whose attitude to taking on PR clients at his main PR business Bell Pottinger, is that of the London barrister who compares himself to a taxi driver. You have to pick up the next one in the queue and if they [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Bell Pottinger, carlton tv, chime communications, David Cameron, Independent, liberal democrats, lobbying, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Green, Nick Clegg, Saatchi brothers, Tim Bell, tory connections, uzbekistan
By Stephen Foster on October 20, 2011
The Guardian newspaper is reviewing its ad account, historically one of UK adland’s trophy accounts although the cash-strapped paper is only expected to spend about £2m with the lucky winner. As you’d expect the pitch numbers some of adland’s finest: Bartle Bogle Hegarty (which has seemed like the obvious home for the Guardian for years), [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, boase massimi pollitt, cover price, defence secretary, falling circulation, guardian, guardian website, i, Independent, Liam Fox, london evening standard, metro, news of the world, Paul Weiland, phone hacking scandal, points of view ad, rkcr/y&r, wieden+kennedy
By Angie Dean on September 23, 2011
Asking all the people in China for their views on what would make the perfect ‘people’s car’ is a pretty tall order (there are over one billion of them including 450m internet users) but that’s what Volkwagen and agencies Goodstein & Partners and Proximity Beijing have done in this campaign by directing collective weareflink, working [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged china campaign, crowd-sourcing, George Warga, goodstein & partners, Independent, internet users, media china branding & marketing awards, people's car, proximity beijing, spikes asia, volkswagen, vw, weareflink
By Staff on September 19, 2011
We all knew Alexander Lebedev, owner of the London Evening Standard, the Independent and its cut-down stablemate i used to be a KGB spy at the embassy in London but he told us he was just the economic attache who spent all day reading the Financial Times to pick up tips. Not sure we believe [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alexander Lebedev, economic attache, financial times, i, Independent, london evening standard, russian embassy, russian talk show, Sergei Polonsky, Vladimir Putin
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 Angie Dean on July 28, 2011
Included in Saatchi & Saatchi’s Cannes New Directors’ Showcase in 2009, husband and wife team Merav and Yuval Nathan have been scooping up awards in Europe and Australia (most recently the Euganea Festival in Italy) for this music video for Lose That Child by Eatliz. Now represented by Independent, their past work includes another big-hitting [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative, News | Tagged Australia, eatliz, euganea festival, Independent, italy, losr that child, Merav Nathan, music videos, my morning elegance, Oren Lavie, saatchi & Saatchi new directors showcase 2009, the nathans, Youtube, Yuval Nathan
By Stephen Foster on July 5, 2011
UK commercials may have failed to trouble the scorers at Cannes this year but some agencies at least are trying hard to get back into the creative game. But are they succeeding? This is AMV/BBDO’s latest for Doritos through production company Independent and directors Glue Society (Jonathan Kneebone and Gary Freedman). I do wonder sometimes [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged advertising, amv/bbdo, cannes, directing duo, doritos, Gary Freedman, glue society, Independent, Jonathan Kneebone, Sergio Leone, the good the bad and the ugly, uk commercials
By Stephen Foster on June 3, 2011
You couldn’t imagine Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail or John Witherow of the Sunday Times appearing in their own ads (has there ever been a picture of Witherow?) but Simon Kelner (pictured), who edits both the Independent and its new cut-down i version, has never been the retiring type. Not content with editing two [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged big al's creative emporium, celeb gossip ad, daily mail, editor, Edward Scissorhands, gq, i, Independent, John Witherow, mccann ercikson, Paul Dacre, restaurant critic, Simon Kelner, Sunday Times, viral
By David O'Reilly on February 22, 2011
Is the tide turning for the concept of news website paywalls, as the Guardian reports today that the Telegraph group is planning to introduce charging for some digital content in the autumn? This news coincides with encouraging signs for News International, with its Times and News of the World paywall sites both recording double-digit growth [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged financial times, guardian, Independent, Mail, news corporation, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, Telegraph, Times
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