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By Stuart Smith on March 14, 2013
The newspaper is dead, and the Telegraph’s decision to merge its daily and Sunday titles into a 7-day-a-week operation is yet another nail in its coffin. Long live the free press. By “free press” I mean not the plutocratic oligarchy (absent the Guardian and Observer-owning Scott Trust) that maintains a diminishing stranglehold over printed national [...]
Posted in Analysis, Finance, Media, News | Tagged 7-day operation, abc figures, Daily Telegraph, internet, journalism, Murdoch McLennan, newspaper circulations, Stuart Smith, sunday telegraph, the guardian
By Staff on March 5, 2013
The Guardian is trying to build its online franchise in the US by opening an office in New York and now with a new campaign from BBH New York. It’s a spin on its ‘Points of view’ campaign from BBH London, purporting to give both sides of a story including gun control, women in the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Politics | Tagged bbh new york, both sides of the argument campaign, microsite, out of home, points of view, the guardian, US campaign
By Stephen Foster on January 11, 2013
It’s a neat idea by the Guardian Media Group and agency BBH to sign up press campaigner (and actor, of course) Hugh Grant to plug its new ‘we own the weekend’ platform, the first time I can recall that the two papers have been promoted as one. And after a sober-sided Hugh, testifying to the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged bbh, guardian media group, Hugh Grant, press campaigner, the guardian, the observer, we own the weekend
By Stephen Foster on December 26, 2012
At this time of year – in the UK at least – we hear a lot about the impending doom for a number of high street retailers (so far unspecified) who are struggling to pay their next quarterly rent bill even though their tills are stuffed with cash from Christmas and the sales. Therefore it’s [...]
Posted in Analysis, Finance, Media, News | Tagged news corporation, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, Simon Fox, the guardian, the times, trinity mirror, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on October 25, 2012
The Guardian has said it may be forced to make compulsory redundancies as its efforts to persuade journalists to leave voluntarily have failed. It was seeking up to 100 voluntary redundancies but only 30 or so people signed up. According to the FT it wants to save £7m from its current editorial budget of £69m [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, digital, london evening standard, newspapers, redundancies, Roy Greenslade, the guardian, the observer
By Stephen Foster on October 17, 2012
Guardian Press blogger Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror and now, I believe, professor of journalism at the City University in London, takes issue with our story that the powers that be at Guardian News & Media and the Scott Trust are seriously considering ditching the print edition of the Guardian and [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged fleet street, guardian news & media, Katherine Rushton, Roy Greenslade, scott trust, Telegraph, the guardian, website
By Stephen Foster on October 16, 2012
Sources at the Guardian newspaper say that, for the first time, canning the print edition and switching to a completely digital product is now being seriously discussed at the top levels of Guardian News & Media. Long-serving Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger (left) is said to be increasingly isolated in his desire to retain a print [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, auto trader, global radio, guardian news and media, scott trust, the guardian, the observer
By Stephen Foster on June 23, 2012
Once upon a time ads had jingles then a few Brits, John Hegarty at BBH with ‘Heard it through the Grapevine’ for Levi’s being the most notable example, thought that was a bit old-fashioned and began choosing already out there music to give their ads more resonance. Earlier in the week we noted that Chipotle, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged back to the start, bbh, betc 'the bear', branded entertainment grand prix, canal plus, chipotle, coldplay, creative artists agency, fast food chain, film grand prix, saatchi & saatchi, sustainable farming, the guardian, the scientist, three little pigs, Willie Nelson
By Staff on June 12, 2012
It’s nearly time to pack the Hawaiian Tropic (or maybe the St Tropez fake tan) for Cannes so awards number crunchers The Gunn Report are offering a sweepstake on likely winners. 1. CHIPOTLE “Back To The Start” UNITED STATES 2. BGH SILENT AIR CON “Dads In Briefs” ARGENTINA 3. DnB NOR BANK “Finally Married” NORWAY [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged cannes, chipotle, fernet 1882, likely winners, smart car, sweepstake, the guardian, the gunn report, Toshiba
By Stephen Foster on April 11, 2012
Wit, man about town, art collector, husband to Nigella Lawson and former adman Charles Saatchi (pictured here with Nigella) has produced a book, Be The Worst You Can Be, that shares his views on life, art and his former wives with us. As ever with Charles it’s his ball so he asks (or rather selects) [...]
Posted in Agencies, Creative | Tagged advertising, aphorisms, art gallery, be the worst you can be, book, charles saatchi, Damien Hirst, Nigel Lawson, Nigella Lawson, saatchi & saatchi, the guardian
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