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It's been another WPP week (JWT India); hacks under fire and Google (again)

It’s been another WPP week (JWT India); hacks under fire and Google (again)

By Stephen Foster on March 28, 2013

***The JWT India storm about Ford ads that’s resulted in the departure of top creative Bobby Pawar just shows how corrupt the whole awards thing is (and much else, of course). There’s clearly a huge scam going on with faux awards entries, cheerfully paid for by the client (in most instances). Essentially, it’s run an [...]

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RKCR/Y&R celebrates BBC's 90th, IPA rages at UK government, Droga5 debuts for Coke Zero

RKCR/Y&R celebrates BBC’s 90th, IPA rages at UK government, Droga5 debuts for Coke Zero

By Stephen Foster on March 15, 2013

A rich mixture then. ***RKCR/Y&R (please call it Y&R, RKC and R have cleared off) has produced this nice film to celebrate the BBC’s 90th birthday, featuring some of its greatest hits. Oddly, there’s no Jimmy Savile. But I can’t really see why someone at the Beeb couldn’t have done this. The corporation is full [...]

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That was the week that was: Leveson, Oreo and, best of all, Norway!

That was the week that was: Leveson, Oreo and, best of all, Norway!

By Stephen Foster on November 30, 2012

*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal framework preventing the bastards from just ignoring the rules and doing what they always have done. All perfectly sensible – so off [...]

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Foolish St James Palace brings out the heavy legal artillery in battle of Kate's boobs

Foolish St James Palace brings out the heavy legal artillery in battle of Kate’s boobs

By Stephen Foster on September 17, 2012

The battle of Kate’s boobs is likely to have more effect on the future conduct of the media in the UK (and possibly elsewhere) than whatever Lord Justice Leveson concludes in his protracted inquiry into media ethics. St James’s Palace, home to Prince Charles, has said it is going to sue Mondadori-owned French magazine Closer [...]

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Maria Miller takes hot seat as minister for Leveson

Maria Miller takes hot seat as minister for Leveson

By Stephen Foster on September 5, 2012

It’s been a long time since adland had a representative in the UK cabinet (although the ubiquitous Lord Mandelson was a non-exec director and minor shareholder in Clenmow Hornby Inge in its early days) but former Grey Advertising exec Maria Miller (left) is the new secretary for culture, media and sport, the department that mostly [...]

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Is Prince Harry entitled to his taxpayer-funded 'privacy?' Publish and be damned!

Is Prince Harry entitled to his taxpayer-funded ‘privacy?’ Publish and be damned!

By Stephen Foster on August 23, 2012

Let’s face it, Prince Harry (third in line to the British throne) pictured playing strip billiards in a £5,100 a night suite in a Las Vegas hotel is a story by anybody’s standards – yours, mine, Lord Leveson’s, obviously Prince Charles’s as the first in line to the aformentioned throne has succeeded in preventing the [...]

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Leveson is side-tracked by the politicians but Rebekah Brooks' day in court may be the clincher

Leveson is side-tracked by the politicians but Rebekah Brooks’ day in court may be the clincher

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 [...]

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Craig Oliver and Norman Smith Leveson spat shows why spinners and hacks will always hate each other

Craig Oliver and Norman Smith Leveson spat shows why spinners and hacks will always hate each other

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 [...]

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What a busy week: Facebook IPO fiasco, Adam & Eve goes for mind-boggling £60m, Jeremy Hunt on way out and why aren't we on Google News?

What a busy week: Facebook IPO fiasco, Adam & Eve goes for mind-boggling £60m, Jeremy Hunt on way out and why aren’t we on Google News?

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 [...]

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It's time the UK's 'over-mighty' media turned on David Cameron and George Osborne

It’s time the UK’s ‘over-mighty’ media turned on David Cameron and George Osborne

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 [...]

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