You’ve got one of those big Yorkshire puddings with the whole meal inside – it’s utter filth, but that’s all right. Someone on stilts hobbles through the mud, almost tripping over the limp, near-catatonic A-level graduates who thought mixing their ...
Read More »Out of Home industry heavy hitters form global advisory company OOH Capital
A number of senior figures from the worldwide Out of Home industry have formed a new global advisory company and consultancy aimed at accelerating the industry’s expansion and digital transformation. Headed by former Ocean Outdoor chairman Tom Goddard (above), the ...
Read More »WPP reveals chunky 2020 loss but CEO Read says recovery is going to plan
It’s not often that a CEO strikes an upbeat note after losing the not inconsiderable sum of nearly £2.8 billion but that seems to be the message from WPP CEO Mark Read (below.) As with many companies that have grown ...
Read More »Morgan’s sudden GMB exit reveals a media world that could have been scripted by Netflix
Meghan Markle, aka the duchess of Sussex (for now anyway) is taking a few media scalps – the latest being Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan. Earlier this week it was announced that the Mail on Sunday newspaper would have ...
Read More »Talon’s Georgie Rumble: last bite of the cookie will encourage innovation in finding target audiences
January 2021 marked a year since Google announced that, due to privacy concerns, they would be blocking the use of Third-Party Cookies (3PC) on their search engine Chrome. Since this announcement, it was motioned that all search browsers would block ...
Read More »How to avoid common corporate website mistakes: a project manager’s cheat sheet
Be it redesigning or rebuilding a website; it is a new process. Creating a new website is a provocation that many organizations take to go through once in years. Whereas a project manager’s involvement in redesigning technicalities is limited, the ...
Read More »Cautious Havas slows decline in last quarter of 2020
Havas, now owned by Vivendi, has reported Q4 2020 and full year figures, coming in towards the bottom of the ad holding companies with full year net revenues down 9.2% at $2.46 billion, compared to pre-pandemic 2019. Full year organic ...
Read More »Do we really need another hectoring from the Government – this time on middle class drug use?
Headlines are funny things. Campaign has one today: Government looks to adland to reduce cocaine use. Now we know that adland has some enthusiastic snorters but surely Boris and co. have more pressing issues on their mind than this? What ...
Read More »Sooner collective charts upbeat route out of UK lockdown
A group of adland’s finest including Sir Nigel Bogle and Robert Campbell are – what’s the word, curating? – a social media campaign #LetsGetThereSooner inviting people to say what they’re looking forward to post-lockdown. And reminding them, as you do, ...
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