Politics

Here’s another unequal contest: the mighty WPP against HMG (which is nervously awaiting the result of the Scottish Referendum, of course). WPP’s fearsome lawyers are challenging the UK government’s decision to award its £140m media buying account to Dentsu-owned Aegis, ...

FCB Inferno, the latest attempt to add heft to Interpublic’s FCB brand in the UK, won the National College for Teaching and Leadership – which describes itself as ‘an executive agency of the Department of Education’ (whatever that means) – ...

**Agencies win all sorts of awards but if there was a ‘Romcom’ agency award it would surely go to BBH. Here it is match-making again, for KFC’s Burritos. Axe/Lynx it ain’t but it’s an interesting proposition. And why not? The ...

Clearly there are more important issues than marketing to consider when thinking about Scottish independence, but being up in Scotland on business in the days before the referendum led me to think about what a yes vote for independence might ...

Here’s a job to tax even the most optimistic of agency bosses. Mega-sized Russian gas producer Gazprom (left) is looking for a UK agency, according to Campaign. Russia isn’t exactly flavour of the month with other countries in Europe at ...

Is this the most ridiculed ad of recent years? M&C Saatchi’s ‘Better Together’ campaign advising a No vote in the forthcoming Scottish Referendum always had a mountain to climb’ given the almost wholly negative, nay scare-mongering, tone of the ‘No’ ...

Will I need a passport…… In just over a week Scotland votes on whether to become a separate nation, breaking its ties with a 300 year old union. The debate has been deployed so far is a classic advertising problem. ...

We’re all wondering (in the UK anyway) what the outcome of the Scottish Referendum on September 18 will be and, here at least, what the serried ranks of London-based admen supporting the ‘No’ campaign might do to reverse their increasingly ...

Welcome to the master of PR. WPP’s half-year results, announced on Tuesday, were, by any rational judgement, disappointing. Earnings and profits were, in the company’s own word, “ravaged” by the strong pound and boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) proceeded to ...