By Stephen Foster on October 2, 2012
Most of us are aware of the famous ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ poster by Saatchi & Saatchi for the Conservative Party in 1979, even if not many people saw it (I think they only made one). Client and agency shot themselves in the foot too by using members of Enfield Young Conservatives for the poster, not [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged conservatives, Labour, labour isn't learning, labour isn't working, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, posters, saatchis
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 February 8, 2012
Well the bloke hasn’t had much to cheer him up recently, having lost a million quid bonus and been vilified by politicians of all hues, mostly for their own hypocritical purposes. Why hypocritical? Labour fuelled the City’s bonus culture and the more than rash expansion of the financial sector that made the consequences of the [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged banker bonuses, coalition government, credit crunch, financial sector, Labour, Peter Mandelson, RBS, Stephen Hester, today programme, £38bn lost
By Staff on February 7, 2012
In the first of an occasional series Nick Lawson, CEO EMEA of WPP-owned media planning and buying giant MediaCom, picks his Desert Island Ads – ones which have influenced his career and the way he thinks of advertising. It’s a sad admission but I think of ads in much the same way that I think [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged chuck out your chintz, crimestoppers, desert island ads, guardian skinhead, hovis, ikea, Labour, Margaret Thatcher, mediacom, midland bank, Neil Kinnock, Nick Lawson, Pepsi, raleigh bikes, saatchi & saatchi, screw fix, st lukes, t-mobile, top ads
By Stephen Foster on January 30, 2012
Well maybe not Labour leader Ed Miliband although it’s surprising that no-one has reminded him yet that RBS boss Stephen Hester’s generous deal at the nearly-nationalised bank was struck by former Labour PM Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling. And that it was Labour that decided that some public sector ‘workers’, like GPs and hospital [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alistair Darling, bankers, bonus, coalition government, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, hunting pinks, Labour, pr disaster, RBS, Stephen Hester, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on December 15, 2010
In leader Nick Clegg and business guru Vince Cable the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner to the Conservatives in the UK’s current coalition government, had two of the most popular and respected communicators at the time of the May general election. But both are well and truly in the doghouse now following their decision to [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, PR, Research | Tagged conservatives, Ken Clarke, Labour, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, reuters/ipsos mori poll, tuition fees, Vince Cable
By David O'Reilly on June 8, 2010
Further evidence that market research has weathered the recession a little better than some of the other marketing disciplines emerged this week with the news that brand owners cut their research spending last year by almost five per cent, a smaller drop than brand advertising has suffered over the last year or two. According to [...]
Posted in News, Research | Tagged advertising, David Cameron, Labour, market research, martin-sorrell, MRS
By David O'Reilly on May 13, 2010
One of the reasons for the hung parliament produced by the general election may simply be the mediocre quality of the communications from the three parties. In past elections, slogans such as the Tories’ “Labour isn’t working” and Labour’s “For the many, not the few” have galvanised the voters into making a clear decision in [...]
Posted in Creative, News, Politics, Research | Tagged David Cameron, Labour, Lib Dems, Tories, tv
By David O'Reilly on May 4, 2010
Another branding triumph today for brash bookmaker Paddy Power, which is paying out two days early on all bets on David Cameron to be Prime Minister and the Tories to win most seats in the general election. With a video projection last night on one side of the Houses of Parliament proclaiming “We’re Paying Out”, [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics | Tagged David Cameron, Labour, Lib Dems, manchester united, marketing, Tories
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