Politics

Looks like we’re in for much more US-style online marketing as Boris Johnson takes over as British prime minister. Facebook has a tidal wave of ads (more than 500 different ones so far) featuring BoJo and his plans for call ...

By Archie Heaton A big part of the ad industry’s job is to understand what people think, to have our finger on the pulse. This is, to a large extent, what brands pay us for; to translate what consumers are ...

Ogilvy employees are protesting – vociferously – about the agency’s work for the US Customs and Border Protection agency, blamed for separating children from their parents at border “facilities”. This is said to have led to the deaths of seven ...

You may have heard of Huawei (pronounced wah-way), it’s not Donald Trump’s favourite technology company or that of many security types around the world. Trouble is (from their point of view) the Chinese giant has lots of capability others don’t. ...

WPP’s Ogilvy finds itself in hot water over a video produced for the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CPB) showing the (allegedly) civilised facilities in its Tucson facility. Ogilvy has a contract with the CPB worth a purported $12m ...

P&G is rebranding Fairy (Fairy Liquid as was) as Fair in its latest effort to effect societal change/be a corporate good guy (you choose.) The venerable detergent has sponsored some research showing that attitudes to LGBT people (or LGBTQ with ...

If, as expected, we get Boris Johnson as the next UK prime minister (possibly only for a week or so but we’ll see) there may be a reprieve for sugary drinks manufacturers and their handmaidens (ad and media agencies) as ...

Many people would argue that the first job of advertising is to be noticed and Cancer Research UK’s current poster campaign has done just that – by linking obesity with smoking as a source of cancer and implying, it seems, ...

A YouGov survey recently revealed that six out of ten voters would not buy a used car from Boris Johnson. Apparently though, 13 per cent would, which proves Abraham Lincoln’s famous dictum that “you can fool some of the people ...