Politics

Here’s a nifty little social media ad from Krow for the Labour Party. Theresa May does indeed make Mrs Thatcher look like Mother Theresa. Hang on, she was a control freak too. M&C Saatchi has the winning hand with the ...

Interpublic, which owns McCann, FCB and Mediabrands among others – unveiled a solid Q1 2017 with earnings (profit) of $21.5m, an impressive increase on the previous year’s $5.4m. Somehow or other IPG managed to reduce its quarterly costs by 58 ...

Celebrity couple and reality stars the Trumps (White House version) have chalked up another win hard on the heels of Donald unloading cruise missiles on a Syrian airbase (having warned the Russians beforehand). Now First Lady Melania has wrung an ...

In Dave Eggers’ The Circle,’ the near future sees the merger of all the leading tech companies into one giant – dominating every aspect of life. There is no escape. Imagine a scenario where Google buys Facebook, or vice versa, ...

I missed this one (I probably would anyway as it has Kendall Jenner in it) for Pepsi. Made in house although there’s no guarantee an agency wouldn’t have done something as daft. But when will “brands” learn (as though brands ...

I see that WPP chief Digital officer Rob Norman (left) is saying he’s in a “constant dialogue” with Google (which owns YouTube) suggesting “a range of actions they may take to give greater comfort and security” to advertisers. Advertisers are ...

Has April 1 arrived early this year? Just read courtesy of the FT that former Chancellor George Osborne (below) is to be the new editor of the London Evening Standard. Current editor Sarah Sands is going off to be a ...

Google’s YouTube is facing a full-on ad crisis as a raft of important advertisers – including the UK government’s Cabinet Office, TfL, the Guardian and L’Oreal – have pulled their ads from the online channel following a further investigation by ...

Here’s Ivanka Trump (looking remarkably like Scarlett Johansson) launching her new fragrance Complicit. And all you readers in the US had better buy it otherwise you’ll be confined to a fragrance-free zone, behind a big wall. Another big step on ...