Politics

This’ll cheer you up. The anti-Trump Republicans are running a state-by-state ‘Mourning in America’ series of ads highlighting the coronavirus wreckage. Here’s Pennsylvania. Powerful yes but Donald Trump is now asserting (in the latest presidential debate) that it will all ...

Time Magazine is calling its readers – and anyone passing a news stand – to action, by replacing its logo with the word “Vote” on its final cover before the US Presidential Election on 3rd November. It’s the first time ...

For many years the subject of responsibility in advertising and its impact on the economy, politics and society has been much debated. It has regularly been a prominent subject in the media, with issues ranging from Brexit to obesity. Societal ...

When the UK economy tanked in Q2 this year as the country went into lockdown – and adspend with it – many people hoped for a V-shaped recovery. You can wave goodbye to that fond notion: The IPA’s latest Bellwether ...

US ad creative Matthew Branning and film director Björn Rühmann have dramatised their concerns about low voter turnout in increasingly close US elections with a new film – ‘Voices’ – showing the consequences of not voting. The US max is ...

Joe Biden has raised twice as much ad money as Donald Trump according to reports, which is handy as he maintains a presence on the airwaves as Trump barnstorms around the country in his inimitable way. Here’s one of the ...

What we might call institutional ‘wokeness’ has claimed another victim, Richards Group founder and creative director Stan Richards, 87, has, in his own words, “fired himself” after being clocked saying a Motel 6 ad was “too black.” He’s said he ...

It’s isn’t long until November 3 and, with Democrat challenger Joe Biden leading in the polls, will his campaign implode, as Hillary Clinton’s did last time round when the FBI took a belated but keen interest in her emails? This ...

Yes, Kanye West has launched his bid to be president of the US, setting himself up as a rival to one-time pal Donald Trump and hoping to take votes off Democrat candidate Joe Biden. West, husband of Kim Kardashian, has ...