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By Stephen Foster on March 8, 2013
UK ad agencies and trade body the IPA are appealing against the Government Cabinet Office’s recent shortlist to pitch for nearly £300m of government ad business. The Government Procurement Service’s application procedure (to get on the shortlist) was apparently based solely on price (presumably an hourly rate or maybe 100 quid to make a commercial) [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged cabinet office, ipa, pr school, tendering process, uk agencies, uk government
By Stephen Foster on January 28, 2013
The UK government is apparently considering running an ad campaign to dissuade Bulgarians and Romanians from flooding into Britain when the rules change soon. Lots of references to warm beer, cold and wet weather and an economy run by George Osborne will doubtless be considered for the brief. So which agency should get the job? [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged 72andsunny, Ad Age, ad campaign, agency of the year, baghdad, bulgarian and romanian immigrants, charles saatchi, m&c saatchi, Maurice Saatchi, sansung, Tory Party, uk government
By Stuart Smith on April 2, 2012
Cabinet Office minister Francis ‘jerry can’ Maude’s legendary communications skills were on full display last week, with a gaffe that caused the Government its worst wobble since the election. Let’s hope this is not an omen. Maude (pictured) is, among other responsibilities, the minister in charge of direct government communications. Meaning: he has been the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged audir commission, change4life, coi, daily mail, drink drive, Francis Maude, gcc, government communications centre, Jenny Grey, nhs, son of coi, uk government, Wendy Proctor
By Stephen Foster on February 14, 2012
It doesn’t seem that long ago that new business pitches were prepared the night before, often by dragging a reluctant creative team out of the pub. There would, of course, be a big research document but the hope (and often the reality) was that the client wouldn’t bother reading it. Not so in these advanced [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged afghanistan, amv/bbdo, Angela Merkel, army recruitment, british army, capita, Iraq, jwt london, ministry of defence, new business pitches, recruitment partnering project, redundancies, uk government
By Stephen Foster on November 17, 2011
Sir Richard Branson has wanted to get into UK banking for years and now, finally, he’s succeeded by agreeing to buy bailed-out northern-based bank Northern Rock from the UK government for £747m. It’s not clear yet if Rorthern Rock will become Virgin Bank or quite how much of the bank Virgin will own, given that [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged brand branson, George Osborne, northern rock, Simon Hoggart, Sir Richard Branson, stagecoach, uk government, virgin, virgin money, virgin trains, west coast main line
By Stephen Foster on August 15, 2011
If anyone doubted that the digital TV business in the UK (apart from Sky) was destined always to be a minnow, further evidence to the contrary has emerged with US company Scripps Networks Interactive, owner of Travel Channel and Food Network, buying into UKTV for a price that could reach £340m. Scripps, headquartered in Knoxville, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged BBC, bbc worldwide, deal, digital channels, food channel, knoxville tennessee, programming, scripps networks interactive, travel channel, uk government, uktv, virgin media
By James Charlton on June 21, 2011
Representatives from the UK advertising and media industries made the trip deep into the bowels of the Mothers Union at 8.30am this morning. An unlikely place to score a free breakfast, they gathered at Mary Sumner House in Westminster to hear from Mothers Union CEO Reg Bailey, on the recommendations he made in his government-commissioned [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged code of advertising practice, David Cameron, ddb uk, James Best, mothers union, Rae Burdon, Reg Bailey report, saatchi & saatchi, sexualisation of children in ads and broadcasting, sexy posters, tv watershed, uk government, westminster
By Stephen Foster on June 15, 2011
Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi is obviously a nasty piece of work, persecuting his people in all sorts of horrible ways as the ‘Arab Spring’ tries to unseat him alongside other Middle Eastern dictators. And here’s a terrific ad for French and Arabic news channel France 24 from Paris agency Marcel pillorying the evil old bastard, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged arab spring, arabs, BP, Colonel Gaddafi, french government, libya, marcel, news 24, oil executives, oil reserves, paris agency, Tony Blair, uk government
By James Charlton on June 6, 2011
‘Let children be children’ was launched today by Reg Bailey, chief executive of Mother’s Union, at a primary school in Balham, London. It is the second government review into the commercial world in three years, and has the personal backing of the prime minister. Advertising to children has been mentioned specifically by both David Cameron [...]
Posted in News, Politics | Tagged ads near schools, advertising, advertising association, advertising standards authority, asa, carry on camping, David Cameron, internet, let children be children, Media, mothers union, music videos, Nick Clegg, ofcom, Reg Bailey, regulation, sexy images, tv, uk government, watershed, wonderbra
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