Politics

People have been reading the last rites over TV for years now but the message evidently hasn’t got through to Super Bowl advertisers. It’s Fox’s turn to broadcast the highlight of the NFL season in 2020 and all 77 in-game ...

Media tycoon and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg – ‘call me Mike’ – has enlisted what he hopes is the power of advertising in his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination, spending an eye watering $37m in a week ...

Advertising Week has joined the ever-growing list of “supporters” abandoning Prince Andrew”s [email protected] tech initiative, aimed at drumming up funds for start-ups. Andrew, AKA the Duke of York, was due to pitch up at next year’s Advertising Week Europe shindig ...

Here’s another effort to save the world – this time from the dreaded plastic – from Possible Moscow (still part of the WPP empire one presumes) for Greenpeace Russia. It’s an interesting spin on a hunting culture – with a ...

S4Capital’s executive chairman Sir Martin Sorrell (he really wants us to remember the executive bit) is bestriding the business world like a mini-colossus, as if nothing has changed from his WPP days (except he always works in a plug for ...

By Colin Wheeler So for England it wasn’t to be. Congratulations South Africa, and this will mean so much more than just winning a World Cup for the Rainbow nation as it continues to unite its diversity. But what a ...

The UK’s National Audit Office doesn’t think much of the Government’s ‘Get Ready for Brexit’ campaign – costing a supposed £100m – reporting that: “On 1 September 2019, the government launched a major communications campaign to help individuals and businesses ...

Advertisers cut budgets for the first time in seven years – down 0.5 per cent – according to the IPA’s Q3 Bellwether report. Which might be deemed a result given all the to-ing and fro-ing over Brexit, due to be ...

The Greater London Authority (GLA) has appointed MSQ Partners as the lead communications agency for London Power, the capital’s new, fair-priced, green energy company created in partnership between the Mayor of London and Octopus Energy. MSQ Partners was appointed after ...