Politics

The Advertising Standards Authority is having to fight its corner more and more these days, as the obesity crisis and #MeToo bring many of the issues facing society – and therefore advertising – into the spotlight. As the nation gets ...

‘Symphony of Violence’ from creative collective Unlockers is part of a project to break Brazil’s apparent inertia about violent crime, with someone murdered every ten minutes, 850,000 over the past 15 years. So the film replicates the shots fired for ...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is proposing a ban on advertising for all products that are high in fat, salt and sugar from London’s transport network. Khan argues that the obesity crisis in the UK warrants such drastic measures. Coca-Cola and ...

James Murphy hinted that adam&eveDDB could open in China during an Advertising Association breakfast last week. The founding partner described China as “tantalizing,” and suggested that a partnership with a local agency would be the best way in, partly due ...

If you find yourself in a Havas office – or any part of Vincent Bolloré’s far flung empire which includes Vivendi as well as African logistics giant Bolloré Group – don’t mention the words Bell Pottinger. Bell Pottinger was the ...

Facebook’s revenues are going through the roof – nearly $12bn in the first quarter Of 2018 (49 per cent up year on year) – 91 per cent of it via mobile. This when founder Mark Zuckerberg has been hauled before ...

What with WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell disappearing (we think) after a lawyerised inquiry and Havas owner Vincent Bolloré helping the French police with their inquiries into some murky African doings in 2010, 2018 is becoming almost surreal. Who’s next to ...

Here’s a characteristically perky number from BETC Paris for Schweppes, trying very hard to be cool again against competition from the likes of Fever-Tree. If it’s clichés you may as well rattle through them. But what’s all this mangerbougerfr. nonsense ...

Here are some supposed highlights from Faceboook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first day of testimony before the US Congress following the Cambridge Analytica data mis-use revelations (87m users had their information hacked). Not much new here from a contrite Zuckerberg although ...