Media

This seems to be P&G’s take on the George Floyd issue, timed, presumably, for the trial of policeman Derek Chauvin. Or the potential aftermath anyway. Inviting us to “widen the screen’ on the way we see things, race especially. By ...

Google has clearly hit the right note with this new call to action – specifically inviting people to search for “covid vaccine near me” so they can get back to things they love. Normal life, that is. Juxtaposing popular pandemic ...

April Fools can be dangerous for unwary corporates – as VW found with its misfiring Voltswagen – and are best left to mischievous hacks. Here’s a good one in MediaPost from Richard Whitman, positing a tie-up ‘twixt P&G and Publicis ...

New partnership expands automated and data-driven OOH access to advertisers The Talon Group, the leading global independent Out of Home (OOH) agency, has announced a partnership between its US, international and German businesses with Hivestack, a global adtech leader in ...

Facebook is reviewing its estimated $750m global media account – not a surprise really as most big advertisers seems to do this these days every two years or so. Facebook has only recently emerged as a big advertiser, using advertising ...

Speculation about a merger between French-owned marketing groups Publicis and Havas has re-emerged following a French media report. Havas pre-dates even the venerable Publicis although it’s now owned by Vivendi, controlled by French tycoon Vincent Bolloré (left.) Son Yannick runs ...

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 ...

The 2021 Formula One season kicks off in Bahrain on Sunday and Wieden+Kennedy is back in the cockpit promoting it, focussing on the reactions of fans, drivers and pit crew rather than the motorised advertising hoardings – sorry, cars. Inviting ...

WPP is getting its data act together to create a new more centralised offering that will combine the capabilities of GroupM and Wunderman Thompson. Data resources are currently scattered throughout WPP, mostly in its media agencies. The ideas is to ...