Finance

The Mayor of London’s office is kicking off the first integrated advertising campaign to promote the launch of ‘London Power’, a new energy company available exclusively to Londoners. Every year residents in the capital spend an estimated £3.5 billion on ...

Is SMS about to announce another deal? He seems to be implying he will in this short video from The Drum at CES 2020 (my, the boy gets around) with some of his S4Capital lieutenants. Saying there’ll be more ‘misfits’ ...

Troubled UK football giant Manchester United (It’s way off the Champions League places although still the highest-grossing UK club on £627m according to Deloitte) is reportedly hunting for its first “creative director.” The lucky (or not) individual would have a ...

No wonder Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun seems to have more grey hairs every time a new picture of him emerges. It won’t be lost on the energetic Sadoun that entries for this year’s Cannes Lions are about to open – ...

Out of Home advertising is everywhere these days, on the rapidly escalating number of escalators too. Leading this particular charge is MotionIcon, which instals ad-friendly escalators in shopping malls, stations and the like. MotionIcon UK and Europe already operates in ...

We expect China-set epics from Apple to kick off the New Year these days and it’s pulled out all the stops this year, an eight-minute tale of a lady taxi driver who takes her daughter to work (in a taxi.) ...

A new year always brings a renewed sense of vigour and purpose. People pledge to do more for themselves; more for others. Maybe that means getting a campaign away for a good cause, or finally getting that side-hustle off the ...

WPP’s David, named after David Ogilvy, is one of the brightest stars in WPP’s somewhat troubled creative firmament, but the Miami-based agency has been hit by a big breakaway including some of the founders, to form indie agency Gut. But ...

Recent media forecasts from sources such as GroupM have forecast slow but continued growth in advertising expenditure in 2020. In these reports, out of home, and more specifically, digital out of home (DOOH), has been identified as one of the ...