Politics

Who’d be an ad executive these days? Your clients don’t like you (even the ones who think you’re OK think you’re charging to much), you’re accused of sexism and harassment on a regular basis and if you’re a really unlucky ...

We’ve got the Christmas ad winner already – and all because Clearcast, a company that acts as a broadcast ad regulator, in its wisdom banned it. It’s Iceland’s “the story of Rang-tang,’ an orangutang which invades a bedroom as nasty ...

President Trump is no fan of the established US media (apart from Fox News), especially the likes of the New York Times which he blames for “fake news,” in a typically Trumpian inversion. Doubt that he’ll be approaching Droga5, the ...

Nike is the master of ambush advertising – ask Olympic sponsor Adidas – and it’s launched maybe its most headline-grabbing effort so far with its choice of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as one of the athletes celebrating ...

The audience for the BBC’s flagship radio news programme the Today programme is plummeting, down 800,000 listeners to seven million according to the most recent Rajar figures. And editor Sarah Sands, latterly of the London Evening Standard, and star presenter ...

The search for business advantage goes into some strange places these days, in the case of Volkswagen in Mexico tampering with the weather. It’s had to suspend the automatic use of “hail cannons,” devices that send shock waves into the ...

The US Army may be by most estimates still the most powerful military force on earth – maybe ever – but it can’t seem to get rid of McCann however hard it tries. Maybe it should outsource the job to ...

George Osborne’s reign as chancellor under David Cameron might be seen as an example of the laws of unintended consequences. His decision to allow people to draw down a significant lump of their painstakingly acquired pensions in 2015, far from ...

Bulls have featured in commercial communications to some effect recently, the Merrill Lynch one next to the Fearless Girl for State Street. Professional Bull Riders (PBR) is hosting an event in Washington DC, the home, it says, of bullsh*t (why ...