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 [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, bully pulpits, camp david, coalition government, daily mail, David Cameron, deficit reduction, france, Francois Hollande, ft, g8, George Osborne, Greece, leveson inquiry, liberal democrats, Martin Wolf, news corporation, Nick Clegg, Sir Martin Sorrell, slash and burn, Sly Bailey, spain, stagnation, Sun, trinity mirror, uk economy, Vince Cable, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 4, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated, cost-cutting, daily mail, daily mirror, digital onslaught, ipc magazines, local papers, news corporation, News International, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Bailey, Sun, sunday mirror, Telegraph, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on March 13, 2012
Rupert Murdoch’s new Sunday version of the Sun is selling about 2.7m copies after three weeks, down from week one’s 3.2m but slightly up on week two. Selling at 50p against Trinity’s Mirror’s £1 Sunday Mirror and People obviously helps of course (both the latter have stabilised after dropping 30 per cent or so with [...]
Posted in News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, campaign, Chris Blackhurst, Daily Telegraph, guardian, i, Independent, news of the world, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Michael Parkinson, Stefano Hatfield, Sun, sun on sunday, sundaymirror, the times, thelondonpaper, three little pigs, uk newspaper sales, X-Factor, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on February 20, 2012
The ‘will it happen, won’t it happen’ debate over Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun on Sunday has been abruptly ended by the great man – it’s going to arrive this Sunday February 26th and he’s going to be in charge. Rupert has always enjoyed inky fingers (in moderation), spending time as a very young man as [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged daily express, Dominic Mohan, february 26 launch date, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, police, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sun, team news, the sun on sunday, wpp pitch
By Stuart Smith on February 13, 2012
A News International spokesman tells us Sun editor Dominic Mohan is “not resigning” in the wake of five more high-profile arrests of his senior colleagues. Well, thank goodness for that. Someone has to be there to switch off the lights, and there now seem precious few editorial staff of any standing who aren’t on bail, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged arrests, bskyb, Dominic Mohan, James Murdoch, ministry of defence, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Sue Akers, Sun, sun on sunday, UK police
By Stephen Foster on January 26, 2012
It’s pretty hard to think of any UK company that’s been as deep in the mire as News International, the News Corporation-owned company that published the recently-extinguished phone-hacking News of the World. But News is reviewing its £28m account according to Campaign, suggesting that the ever-combative company has decided that sitting in the corner and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged ad agency review, CHI, engine group, Mazher Mahmood, mindshare, news of the world replacement, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, sunday mirror, Sunday Times, the sun on sunday, the times, trinity mirror, wcrs
By Stephen Foster on January 23, 2012
Well here they are Dynasty’s Joan Collins and Stephanie Beacham for Mars’ Snickers from AMV/BBDO. Our correspondent Ian Mac (see Recent Comments) loves it but I dunno. To make you laugh it has to ever-so-slightly plausible. Even West Ham’s Karren Brady, the Sun-styled ‘first lady of football,’ isn’t this bad. Maybe they should have persuaded [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged dynasty, Ian Mac, Joan Collins, Karren Brady, mars, snickers, Stephanie Beacham, Sun, west ham
By Stephen Foster on January 17, 2012
Exhumations are continuing into the demise of UK marcoms group Media Square, with Bob Willott of Financial Services Marketing Intelligence laying out the company’s series of disastrous deals (most notably buying a job lot of unwanted companies from PR group Huntsworth in 2005 for £63m, in cash of all things) and the new management of [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Andrew Neill, David Reid, highbury house, Huntsworth, Janet Street-Porter, Kelvin MacKenzie, live tv, media square, mirror group, msq partners, news corporation, Roger Parry, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, talk radio, talksport, utv
By Stephen Foster on November 16, 2011
Bartle Bogle Hegarty likes to talk about modern advertising as ‘Super Bowl meets social media,’ making big impact commercials that run a few times before big paid-for audiences before they reach millions more on YouTube and pick up thousands more Facebook fans. Its work for Yeo Valley, a collection of organic dairy producers in the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Adam Freeman, agency review, bartle bogle hegarty, bbh, economist, financial times, Jason Gonsalves, newspapers, north somerset, rapping farmers, rkcr/y&r, Sir John Hegarty, Sun, the churned forever, the guardian, wieden+kennedy london, yeo valley
By Stephen Foster on November 10, 2011
News Corporation deputy COO James Murdoch did pretty well before his UK Parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport inquisitors today – rebuffing the testimony of former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former legal manager Tom Krone that he has been lying about his knowledge of widespread wrongdoing at the now-defunct newspaper. In this [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Colin Myler, James Murdoch, new of the world, news corporation, parliamentary committee, phone hacking scandal, sky news, Sun, Tom Krone
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