Politics

Despite 83 per cent of Americans supporting net neutrality maintaining the status quo, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has undone the 2015 rules that prevented internet providers from using a tiered/paid system to block or slow specific websites. Now, because ...

We’ve noticed that Accenture Interactive is taking over (bits of) the corporeal world, now it’s expanding its horizons to matters spiritual with the new task of launching Vatican News, described as “part of the Vatican reform aimed at finding new ...

There are the usual Christmas ads spoofs on YouTube but a bit listless this year – maybe this epoch in adland is coming to a close. Some people criticised John Lewis for scaring children with monsters under the bed. Imagine ...

Consultancy Brand Finance has been looking at the “brand value” of the UK monarchy – not their personal finances – and deduced that the capital value of the UK monarchy as a business is a hefty £67.5bn, making an annual ...

Betting has become a national scandal in the UK, an even more potent way of making the poor poorer than government policy. Some sort of crackdown is on the way, aimed particularly at betting machines in shops that empty your ...

I’ve been very fortunate to have worked on the last five football World Cups – for sponsoring and (mainly) non-sponsoring brands. I managed to get to a few too. France, Japan, Germany, South Africa, Brazil. Awesome tournaments. Amazing destinations. Brilliant ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David take a look at what it takes to market successfully in China and a landscape dominated by Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu. These three giants are frequently compared to Western platforms like Google, Facebook ...

M&C Saatchi international boss Moray MacLennan has announced that CCO Justin Tindall (left), who famously announced that he was “bored of diversity” in a Campaign article, won’t be fired. Because he didn’t say he was “bored with diversity.” Which is ...

Country managers are popping up all over the holding company landscape and they seem to be a different breed, for good or ill. Dentsu Aegis has sprung what’s probably the biggest surprise so far by choosing Mother founder Stef Calcraft ...