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 Stephen Foster on October 15, 2011
The weekend we’re seeing an outbreak of anti-business or anti-capitalism protests breaking out all over the world as others take their lead from the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests in the US. Here’s Rupert Murdoch getting a bit of stick as he addresses a bunch of American fat cats about his plans to expand into the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Adam Werritty, education, global businesses, Liam Fox, lobbying firms, news corporation, occupy wall street protests, people protests, protest, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 12, 2011
The Liam Fox affair drags on, the UK coalition government defence secretary remains the subject of an internal investigation about his relations with close friend and best man at his wedding Adam Werritty. Werritty has masqueraded as an official adviser to Fox, attending loads of meetings with the defence secretary, some abroad, although he was [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Werritty, affairs, Boris Johnson, coalition government, Craig Oliver, David Cameron, david laws, defence secretary, Dorothy Macmillan, Edwina Currie, Harold Macmillan, John Major, John Profumo, Liam Fox, Lord Boothby, Lord Lambton, Norman Lamont, Norman Levy, Olga Polizzi, pr man, sex scandals, Tory Party, uk pm, Viscount Jellicoe, William Hague
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