Leaders of 145 of America’s biggest companies have signed a letter demanding background checks on gun buyers and ‘Extreme Risk’ laws following a spate of summer shootings in the US. Separately Walmart is demanding more checks: about time too as ...
Read More »Sir Martin Sorrell: agencies can no longer access consumers
It seems a while since Sir Martin Sorrell did the rounds of the TV studios as in his WPP days but here’s the boss of S4Capital and MediaMonks regaling the viewers of CNBC with his views about the way companies ...
Read More »Burger King adds to democratic confusion with 2€ burger
Politics, you may have noticed wherever you are, is in a state of flux at the moment with people not knowing who to vote for or why. Burger King in France and agency Buzzman is joining the conversation (as we ...
Read More »“Get Ready for Brexit” says UK government – but what do we do?
At least the Out of Home industry seems to be be accruing some benefits from Brexit. The UK government has kicked off its “Get Ready for Brexit” campaign with lots of posters, courtesy of Engine and media agency Manning Gottlieb ...
Read More »Michael Gove to unveil £100m Brexit campaign next week
Government minister (and one-time Boris Johnson foe) Michael Gove is due to announce details of the UK government’s £100m campaign to prepare the country for Brexit next week – with the less than rousing “Get Ready” as its theme. Some ...
Read More »GoCompare’s change of ad tack sparks complaints rush
Are Chris Wilkins and Sian Vickers still available? CoCompare.com abandoned its long-serving in-house creative team – the inventors with director Graham Rose of the noisy Gio Compario – as a shiny new CMO moved the business to shiny agency Droga5, ...
Read More »Boris begins time in office with a Facebook deluge
Looks like we’re in for much more US-style online marketing as Boris Johnson takes over as British prime minister. Facebook has a tidal wave of ads (more than 500 different ones so far) featuring BoJo and his plans for call ...
Read More »The Campaign magazine Farage farrago: surely we can have diversity of opinion too
By Archie Heaton A big part of the ad industry’s job is to understand what people think, to have our finger on the pulse. This is, to a large extent, what brands pay us for; to translate what consumers are ...
Read More »Ogilvy staff protest Customs and Border Protection work
Ogilvy employees are protesting – vociferously – about the agency’s work for the US Customs and Border Protection agency, blamed for separating children from their parents at border “facilities”. This is said to have led to the deaths of seven ...
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