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By Stephen Foster on January 14, 2013
Sirs Martin Sorrell and Richard Branson and sundry other business luminaries have written to the Financial Times blasting tbe UK PM’s plans to hold a referendum on Britain’s EU membership. This is scheduled after the next General Election, which David Cameron is unlikely to win – but never mind. These Tory-supporting business types make you [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged David Cameron, EU, financial times letter, referendum, richard branson, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sir Richard Branson, Tory Party
By Angie Dean on December 30, 2012
Maybe Richard Branson’s new Virgin Atlantic partner Delta Airlines has brought some advertising money as part of its £224m dowry to buy Singapore Airlines’ 49 per cent stake in the bearded one’s airline business. Because we haven’t seen anything quite as ambitious as this, ‘Fly in the Face of Ordinary,’ from Virgin and agency RKCR/Y&R [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged delta air lines, richard branson, scarlet-hued totty, singapore airlines, tv campaign, virgin atlantic, Willie Walsh
By Stephen Foster on December 6, 2012
Independent production company Sundog Pictures is launching its new feature documentary Breaking the Taboo online, replacing the traditional theatrical window with a global launch on YouTube. Breaking the Taboo uncovers the UN-sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its impact on countries including the USA, Colombia and Russia. In Mexico drug-related crime is estimated [...]
Posted in Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, PR | Tagged Alan Sugar, breaking the taboo, documentary, google, Johnny Webb, Morgan Freeman, online launch, richard branson, Sam Branson, sundog pictures, united nations drugs policy, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on September 25, 2012
I believe it was Virgin Records who used to make a fortune out of those useless compilation records ‘the best pile of old tat in the UK – ever’ or some such. And Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg (also deputy prime minister of the coalition government) has a lot in common on first sight with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged david laws, Jeremy Thorpe, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, pensioners, richard branson, Vince Cable, virgin
By Stephen Foster on September 10, 2012
It hasn’t been a good year for Richard Branson and his Virgin empire and now he has suffered another blow with the departure of long-serving Virgin Atlantic boss Steve Ridgway. Virgin Atlantic is still reeling from the purchase of small British carrier BMI from Lufthansa by British Airways which has given wily BA boss Willie [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged aimerican airlines, BA, bmi, first group, Julie Southern, richard branson, rkcr/y&r, Steve Ridgway, virgin atlantic, west coast railway, Willie Walsh
By Stephen Foster on August 29, 2012
You almost despair of ever seeing a good mobile phone ad but Mother New York has produced one for Virgin Mobile. Whatever one thinks about the bearded one (currently starring on stage and screen in the saga of who runs Britain’s west coast railway from London to Manchester and Glasgow) Richard Branson and his minions [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged mother new yotk, richard branson, virgin mobile
By Stephen Foster on June 12, 2012
Branded entertainment – everybody’s doing it (well AT&T and Unilever are anyway) but what does it actually do? There’s an obvious problem at the heart of it: it can’t be an (obvious) ad or you’ll turn people off; but, if it isn’t an ad, what’s the point? A nice warm Harvey Nicholls-type feeling (corporate version)? [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged america, at&t, Australia, branded entertainment, departure date, eleven inc, in-flight movie, Kat Coiro, richard branson, unilever, virgin atlantic
By Paul Simons on April 9, 2012
During my teenage years my Mum had hung a piece of homespun philosophy in our hallway. It said “I complained because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet” Anon. I saw it every time I arrived home and even if I didn’t read it I knew it was there. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged account people, chiat day la, Chris Deering, Chris Palmer, creative nops route, creatives, George Bernard Shaw, gorgeous, Paul Simons, Playstation, production company, progress in the hands of unreasonable men, richard branson, simons palmer, unreasonable creatives
By Stephen Foster on April 2, 2012
It’s quite clear that the first thing you do when you’re pitching for a Virgin anything account is suggest to a relieved client that all your investigations show that Richard Branson should appear in it somewhere. You then have the problem of preventing the toothy bearded one taking over the whole bloody thing. Bartle Bogle [...]
Posted in News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, David Tennant, debut campaign, dr who, richard branson, tardis time machine, tivo, virgin media
By Stephen Foster on March 12, 2012
We’re resistant to the charms of Richard Branson in this corner of the blogosphere (especially when he turns up in his ads, as he seems to all the time now) but Mother New York has walked the line with the world’s most demanding client and managed to make it funny. “I’m Richard Branson and I’m [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged i'm here to service you, mother new york, richard branson, virgin mobile, world's most demanding client
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