Politics

Nicolas Lautier is creative director of BETC Paris. He joined recently from Ogilvy Paris where he spent seven years working on brands including Perrier, Scrabble, Coca-Cola and Ford. Jealousy is a good criteria when it comes to selecting the best ...

If you though Brexit was bad, what about a Trump presidency? Trump may be the ultimate political maverick but then so, in their different ways, were Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage in the Brexit campaign. What else do ...

It’s the big day tomorrow (Tuesday) in the US and the rest of the world besides. Last week we were a bit sceptical about a JWT report that reckoned younger people (sometimes) got their political messages from brands. Well here’s ...

It’s no doubt lazy to say that social media et al. is making idiots of us all. Trouble is it seems to be true. A new report from J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group called The Political Consumer claims that consumers ...

Another week done and dusted, another huge sack of shredded paper heading off to the recycling bin, Snapfax fans. Once again, we’ve been satisfying the voracious appetite of our fax machine fed from the internet, which is in turn attached ...

Martin Sorrell (as he then was) built WPP into a £22bn advertising behemoth by buying big agency brands (JWT then Ogilvy then Y&R then Grey) in the days when they planned and bought media as well. Now they don’t the ...

We suggested that Wieden+Kennedy’s ‘Bud Light Party’ campaign for AB InBev with Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen was a high wire act and so it’s proved: agency (and client) have just fallen off it. Here’s the Super Bowl launch ad. ...

Addressing the nation on the wireless this morning (he doesn’t really require an interviewer) WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell (below) had to try to sound downbeat about the UK’s Brexit vote even as the fall in the value of the ...

Welcome back, Snapfax fans – those of you who can’t get enough of our fax machine fed from the internet and attached to a single shredder, to discover who are this week’s favourite shreds. This week, we have taken a ...