There’s no company more synonymous with “white” than Procter & Gamble, for entirely understandable laundry-related reasons. But P&G is now taking another turn on the slippery ‘advertising for good’ slopes with a new campaign – ‘My black is beautiful’ – ...
Read More »War breaks out at Bell Pottinger over Gupta campaign
Britain’s biggest PR firm, Bell Pottinger, 25 per cent owned by Chime Communications in which WPP is a substantial shareholder, is embroiled in a life-threatening row over its work for the controversial South African Gupta brothers who have prospered mightily ...
Read More »Why £500m for Neymar is a PR investment
When people, and indeed whole countries, began investing mind-boggling sums in football and football players it seemed as though they’d gone mad. Maybe they had but the rest of the world of the world seems to have caught up with ...
Read More »MediaCom survey shows UK’s troubled teens
Media agency MediaCom has been looking into what UK teens (‘Generation Z’) think about their (and our) future prospects and it isn’t looking good. Although 73 per cent say that they’re most concerned with getting a job they like (and ...
Read More »Neil Davidson of Hey Human: the nation’s at a low ebb and it’s time we did something about it
After Grenfell Tower, things will never be the same again. Its charred skeleton stands as a breath-taking symbol of how we treat the most vulnerable members of our society, and of the true impact of ill-considered cost-cutting. It’s time for ...
Read More »New IPA Bellwether Report show internet spending is up even though confidence is down
Marketers usually cut back budgets when times get tough – as they seem to be following the Brexit vote – but the new IPA quarterly Bellwether Report says they’re actually planning to spend more, chiefly on digital. This despite doom ...
Read More »McCann loses mega-client who didn’t believe it was a contractor – or has it?
The Us Army dumped McCann Worldgroup from its shortlist for a new agency for technical reasons, according to Ad Age. These included the formatting of unspecified documents and an inability to confirm McCann’s status as a certified contractor, despite the ...
Read More »UK’s ASA sets out to ban gender stereotypes in ads
Right then, some time in the future UK advertisers and agencies won’t be able to show ads featuring: *Family members creating a mess while a woman has sole responsibility for cleaning it up. *The suggestion that a specific activity is ...
Read More »Amnesty’s Air offers lessons for Trump and Ertogan
Brussels agency Air is drumming up business for Amnesty’s Summer University, the biggest assembly of human rights activists in Belgium. So it’s produced a print and online campaign showing two (unlikely) attendees. You know this one. This is Turkey’s President ...
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