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Stan Smith, who was a pretty good tennis player as I recall although not a superstar, has done pretty well out of his tennis shoes for Adidas. And now they’re riding two of the big waves of 2021: green everything ...

The UK’s Labour Party (12 years in opposition now) has something much worse than a policy problem; it has a marketing problem. This week, one of the architects of New Labour – an unsurprisingly dissatisfied Lord Mandelson (left) – called ...

Intel’s marketing agency just had a terrible idea. In response to Apple slowly removing Intel chips from their Mac line-up in favour of their own (far superior) silicon, they hired Justin Long to revive his famous role from the classic ...

Lots of people in the UK are heading north it seems with even HMG’s Treasury planning to ship staff to Darlington and a chunk of Channel 4 heading to Leeds. On a rather smaller scale Deloitte is planning to open ...

Out of home giants Clear Channel and JC Decaux have surveyed 1,000 UK consumers to find out why they value brands, in particular what creates trust. The consumer confidence survey reveals that the top three brand qualities to build trust ...

The uncertainty around the COVID-pandemic continues to limit future planning as we look ahead to 2021, and sports marketers especially are currently assessing what to take away from a mercurial 2020 in terms of shopping tendencies, audience habits, and the ...

This will have produced a warm glow for WPP CEO Mark Read: Forrester Research has annointed WPP as a leader in “commerce services,” citing its “strength and higher client satisfaction in commerce strategy, emerging commerce touchpoints and commerce experiences compared ...

UK government advertising in 2020 reached £163m (up 237%) with, on top of that, £80m from Public Health England (almost eight times the preceding year’s level) showing the ad impact of the Covid-19 epidemic. Most of this was spent with ...

New Ogilvy CEO Andy Main’s team have landed a pretty big one: global lead agency for Swedish vodka brand Absolut. Absolut, now majoring on sustainability, is known for its advertising, latterly much of it through BBH, working at various times ...