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 [...]
Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks has, as expected, been charged by the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service with three charges of conspiracy to pervert the course for allegedly removing and concealing information pertaining to the Metropolitan Police’s investigations into phone hacking and illegal payments to police officers. Rather unexpectedly Brooks and her husband Charlie have [...]
Sly Bailey, Sylvia as was, has quit her job as CEO of Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People plus a collection of local papers in an argument with shareholders over her £1.7m pay package. Bailey, a former IPC Magazines boss before she took over at the Mirror in 2003, faced [...]
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
And pretty gruesome ‘Live for Now,’ sounds, focussing on ‘pop culture,’ as opposed to what’s in the can. According to Pepsi US marketing boss Simon Lowden:”When we look at what Pepsi really stands for, we’ve been an entertainment platform for as far back as anyone can remember. But there have been times in the last [...]
Former News International boss James Murdoch was up before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics today and, while James escaped pretty well unscathed (in part due to his professed reluctance to read evening emails revealing phone hacking on a grand scale at the News of the World) he’s left the coalition government reeling. Culture, media [...]
Paul Weinberger (pictured) is chairman of Tesco agency The Red Brick Road and the creative who’s nursed Tesco along for the past 20 years, first at Lowe Howard-Spink, then Lowe & Partners and then at breakaway The Red Brick Road. When Tesco followed Sir Frank Lowe and Weinberger to start-up TRBR seven years Weinberger is [...]
It’s no great surprise that James Murdoch has chosen to resign as chairman of British pay-TV company BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking and other scandals at his dad’s News Corporation (39 per cent owner of BSkyB). James has become an embarrassment after his disastrous reign as chairman of News Corp’s News International which [...]
Remember ITV Digital, OnDigital in its first incarnation? It was the pay-TV business set up by Carlton and Granada (who subsequently came together as ITV) which briefly challenged Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB in the UK pay TV business. ITV Digital eventually subsided in 2002 leaving ITV £1bn or so out of pocket, the most spectacular of [...]
Sir Martin Sorrell has been performing at the US 4A’s ‘Transformation’ conference, debating, among other things, the issue of whether or not the internet has added value or destroyed it. To which the only answer is: it depends where you’re sitting. But, in revealing the spend on social media by WPP’s companies, he rather gave [...]
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