Politics

Want something else to worry about after Covid, climate change (NYC is currently under water) and terrorists once more roaming Afghanistan – it’s space baby. Not the infestation of (nearly) space by crazed billionaires but all those thousands of objects ...

It’s the Paralympics soon following a surprisingly successful Olympics 2020 and we all know what the Paralympics competitors are don’t we? ‘Super. Heroes’ as broadcaster Channel 4 puts it in its current campaign. Not according to adam&eveDDB’s new ‘#WeThe15’ for ...

MullenLowe has been reappointed to the UK government’s Covid-19 advertising drive, to no-one’s great surprise as the agency acquitted itself well through the pandemic. The agency, which has earned an estimated £20m to date (media expenditure runs into hundreds of ...

The UK government is reviewing its Covid-19 agencies: MullenLowe for creative, which is pitching against M&C Saatchi, and media agency Manning Gottlieb OMS which will probably end up pitching against everyone as the process is reported to be taking a ...

We often hear about the absence of a marketing voice at the top tables of big companies these days but that can’t be said of Adam Crozier, tipped to be the next chairman of the UK’s BT, a massive business ...

Apple, Google owner Alphabet and Microsoft raked in combined profits of neqrly $5bn a week during the second quarter of 2021, with Facebook and Amazon due to report later this week. “Digital advertising is just on fire” said one fund ...

There’s a more positive air about M&C Saatchi as Moray MacLennan’s new regime tries to put its accounting problems behind it. But the agency has still lost a lot of ground: in the UK it was once comfortably bigger than ...

Former JWT creative director Chas Bayfield and his colleague Dave Jenner who have successfully taken JWT to an employment tribunal for sex discrimination deserve a medal. As it happens, Jenner is thought to have left the industry while Bayfield is ...

Yesterday was so-called “Freedom Day” in the UK when all the remaining Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were supposed to be scrapped – except, of course, they haven’t been. Dithering PM Boris Johnson (every time he makes his mind up some senior ...