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By Staff on April 12, 2012
Downing Street must be paved with gold – or so it must seem to Tim Allen (pictured), boss of London PR firm Portland, who has just sold a majority stake in his company to Omnicom. The deal values Portland at up to £20m. Allen is a former PR adviser to Tony Blair in Number 10 [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged 10 downing street, Alastair Campbell, bskyb, google, omnicom, politics, PR, Rachel Whetstone, Steve Hilton, Tesco, the red brick road, Tim Allan, Tony Blair
By Stuart Smith on March 7, 2012
Few in the ad industry will lament the departure of Steve ‘Yoda’ Hilton, David Cameron’s director of strategy. Indeed, such is the relief that he is going, some would willingly pack the diminutive ‘blue sky’ thinker’s bags, as he contemplates a year’s ‘sabbatical’ with his family in California. Politically speaking, California is the sunny side [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bailey report, blue sky thinking, california, children, coalition government, coi, David Cameron, demon eyes poster, Francis Maude, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, saatchi & saatchi, Steve Hilton, Tony Blair, Tory Party, us-style ad council
By Stephen Foster on November 7, 2011
And Philip Gould (latterly Lord Gould) wasn’t even a particularly famous adman before he was chosen by New Labour presiding genius Peter Mandelson (later Lord…etc, etc) to be the about-to-be-revived party’s opinion pollster (usually focus groups) and sage. Gould died today at 61 of throat cancer and the tributes have been justifiably fulsome. He helped [...]
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By James Charlton on June 17, 2011
The last year and a bit has been a turbulent time for the UK government’s communicators. It was always likely to be the case, with the coalition government wielding its new broom. A haze of resignations, slightly fewer appointments, U-Turns and the promise of gargantuan spending cuts invites the question, just what on earth is [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged anti-flu campaign, cabinet office, civil service, cnetral office of information, coi, cuts, dubai, Francis Maude, George Osborne, m4c agency, Mark Lund, Matt Tee, nhs, Peter Buchanan, PR, resignations, Rishi Saha, Steve Hilton, uk coalition government, uk's biggest advertisier, WPP
By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
Senior advertising executives were probably quite happy to see David and Samantha Cameron scamper up the steps of 10 Downing Street last May. They had endured 13 years of hard Labour. A total ban on cigarette advertising in 2002 was followed in 2007 by severe TV restrictions on the advertising of food high in fat, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Boulton, Alastair Campbell, coalition government, conservative central office, David Buckingham, David Cameron, Ed Balls, government strategist 10 downing streeet, Lord Saatchi, m&c saatchi, mothers union, Reg Bailey, saatchi & saatchi, Samantha Cameron, Steve Hilton
By Stephen Foster on February 14, 2011
UK coalition PM David Cameron tried to relaunch his ‘Big Society’ idea today, frustrated that his opponents (and some of his supporters) regard this as a fig leaf to conceal the fact that the Tories in the Government want to replace public spending with voluntary work. This is broadly the view taken by the advertising [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged big society, campaign, David Cameron, Francis Maude, google, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, Michael Green, Rachel Whetstone, Samantha Cameron, Steve Hilton
By Stephen Foster on February 1, 2011
We’re reading between the lines here of course but WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell and woman-about-everything-new-media Martha Lane Fox are advising the coalition government on its communications policy, in particular its desire to get more bang for its bucks (or, in this, case no bucks). As part of its ‘big society’ initiative cabinet office minister [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged aa, advertising association, BBC, coi, David Cameron, Francis Maude, government advertising, Mark Thompson, Martha Lane Fox, Sir Martin Sorrell, Steve Hilton, Tim Lefroy, us ad council, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 30, 2011
Charities are big businesses these days, winning a place at the top geo-political tables, being summoned to the cause of the UK’s ‘Big Society’ (proprietors David Cameron and Steve Hilton) and running ad campaigns a-plenty, including every other spot on digital TV channels aimed at supposedly time and cash-rich middle class potential donors. Big agencies [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Research | Tagged adam & eve, Albert Einstein, big society, charities, David Beckham, David Cameron, fundraising, Nelson Mandela, research, save the children, Steve Hilton, tv adverrtising
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