Politics

The UK’s NHS seems to lurch from crisis to crisis no matter how much money is thrown at it. Now it’s running out of nurses as we head into another virus-ridden winter. MullenLowe, recently re-appointed to the main ad account, ...

Marketing scores better than other industries when it comes to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion according to a new survey by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and Kantar. So that’s all right then? Not quite. Even though marketing scored an ...

John Lewis ads usually take centre stage at this time of year – much speculation about its Christmas effort, will it be Adele? – but it’s Home Insurance under the spotlight now with its recent effort accused by social media ...

Remember when subliminal advertising was deemed a threat to humankind? No? Well it was “the use by advertisers of images and sounds to influence consumers’ responses without their being consciously aware of it.” First discovered, allegedly, in 1947 when it ...

As one who doesn’t use Facebook at all it’s sometimes bewildering to discover the amount of ire it provokes – isn’t it just supposed to connect people who want to share not very interesting aspects of their lives? A threat ...

“Imagine a world without trusted media,” says the World Media Group, which represents some of the planet’s more famous legacy media owners. Thought we were living in one but that’s their point: partisan influencers, subjective bloggers and politically funded websites ...

In theory the UK’s secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (quite a bagful if you think about it) should play a big role in the fortunes of the ad and media industry. But there’ve been ten of ...

Levelling up seems to be on many people’s minds as the rich get richer (and the rest of us don’t) even although the world, as some believe, is going to hell in a handcart thanks to climate change, Covid and ...

The UK ad industry is lining up against the Government’s mad, mean-minded plan to sell off broadcaster Channel 4 with Campaign (subscription required) orchestrating an open letter against the plan, claiming C4 “plays a key role in offering diverse programming ...