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WPP chuffed with Omnicom travails, BBH puts its hopes in Lafferty and BBC's Today goes girl hunting

WPP chuffed with Omnicom travails, BBH puts its hopes in Lafferty and BBC’s Today goes girl hunting

By Stephen Foster on May 17, 2013

***A happy man tonight will be Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of WPP. He’s seen Omnicom slashing jobs at BBDO, after Interpublic’s McCann the world’s biggest agency network, following the loss of $300m Gillette to WPP’s Grey. More than that, he’ll see Omnicom boss John Wren’s reliance on his three big creative agency networks – BBDO, [...]

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Now Radio 4's Today catches BBC 'text us' bug

Now Radio 4′s Today catches BBC ‘text us’ bug

By Stephen Foster on June 11, 2012

All this social media is having a worrying effect on mainstream media, not least in the desire of editors to get ‘feedback’ from readers, viewers and listeners. For a while now the BBC Radio 5 ‘Live,’ its sports and news station, has been inviting listeners to phone, email, text or Facebook in response to just [...]

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Craig Oliver and Norman Smith Leveson spat shows why spinners and hacks will always hate each other

Craig Oliver and Norman Smith Leveson spat shows why spinners and hacks will always hate each other

By Stephen Foster on May 29, 2012

The Leveson Inquiry entertainment goes on, with Tony Blair appearing earlier this week and being engagingly Tony-ish (the bastard), education secretary Michael Gove (a former employee of Rupert Murdoch as a journalist at the The Times) annoying his lordship with his view that a free press means that you have to accept the rough with [...]

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Two cheers for RBS boss Stephen Hester

Two cheers for RBS boss Stephen Hester

By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2012

Well the bloke hasn’t had much to cheer him up recently, having lost a million quid bonus and been vilified by politicians of all hues, mostly for their own hypocritical purposes. Why hypocritical? Labour fuelled the City’s bonus culture and the more than rash expansion of the financial sector that made the consequences of the [...]

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Ogilvy opportunity on the BBC for John Hegarty and the IPA's Nicola Mendelsohn

Ogilvy opportunity on the BBC for John Hegarty and the IPA’s Nicola Mendelsohn

By Stephen Foster on November 14, 2011

And when the opportunity arises you’ve got to make the best of it. Which both Nicola Mendelsohn, boss of Karmarama and president of UK agency trade body the IPA, and the sainted Sir John Hegarty (pictured) both did this morning on the BBC’s Today Programme. The opportunity arose because David Ogilvy’s seminal ‘Confessions of an [...]

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Lord Bell hits back at critics of PR companies' involvement with Middle East regimes

Lord Bell hits back at critics of PR companies’ involvement with Middle East regimes

By Staff on March 24, 2011

The famously affable and debonair Lord Bell (Tim Bell as he was in his advertising days) has clearly been stung by criticisms of his company Bell Pottinger’s involvement with the Bahrain government and has written to trade publication PR Week to defend his reputation and that of other PR companies involved in the Middle East. [...]

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Is Today invitation to Katie Price an own goal for BBC brand?

Is Today invitation to Katie Price an own goal for BBC brand?

By David O'Reilly on November 23, 2010

Mark Thompson must be grinding his teeth this morning following the news broken by the Times that the Today programme is in talks with Katie Price, aka Jordan, about guest-editing an episode of the daily news and current affairs programme some time between Christmas and New Year. The BBC director-general spends a large part of [...]

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