Politics

BT has spent billions on its still relatively new BT Sport and now faces the prospect of shelling out even more as the Premier League, for which it holds two packages against Sky’s seven, rolls the dice again at the ...

Poor Justin Tindall (left), now CCO of M&C Saatchi after a long and distinguished stint at Leo Burnett, has written what can only be described as a grovel in Campaign (hope you can read this despite the paywall) for remarking ...

The Advertising Association is banging the drum for immigrants post-Brexit with a new campaign from adam&eveDDB based on a report – World Class Talent, World Class Advertising – which shows the the UK (London in particular) attracts more overseas ad ...

Qatar airways has appointed Amsterdam’s 180 Kingsday as its global creative AOR. Omnicon-owned 180 Kingsday will work on brand campaigns for Qatar Airways including work on its official partnership with FIFA and upcoming associated events, including the 2018 FIFA World ...

Should they go further and blacklist controversial clients? A Guardian investigation reveals that various WPP PR and lobbying firms have been trousering fees from America’s National Rifle Association (NRA), a perfectly legal organisation, for years even while WPP agencies including ...

The UK government is reviewing its £140m or so media account after four years with Dentsu Aegis’ Carat. And the statutory review has Alex Aiken (below), director of communications at the Cabinet Office (which replaced the old COI as client ...

“Where there’s a Y there’s an us” says Droga5 in its latest outing for America’s YMCA, harking back to an era when Americans were nice (nicer?) to each other. There’s been a slew of US ads on this theme, ever ...

Here’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg outlining nine things the social network is going to do to prevent nasties invading its space: specifically some 3,000 Russia-originated anti-Clinton election ads it’s magnanimously agreed to share with the US Congress, which is investigating election ...

Every week seems to bring a new disaster for Facebook – not one that seems to affect its money-hoovering activities mind – and now it’s the discovery by ProPublica that you can target the news feeds of over 2,000 people ...