Politics

The theme of this week’s #MediaSnack from ID Comms is disruption and comes in three parts. First Tom Denford talks about his observations from a marketer event he participated in last week. The event was in New York and organized ...

Exterion Media, formerly CBS Outdoor, has retained the London Underground, Crossrail, DLR and London Overground outdoor advertising contract, said to be the largest such contract in the world with a value of £150m annually. Exterion beat off strong competition from ...

*Tennis player Maria Sharapova (below) is facing a four-year ban for taking some tablets she claims she’s been taking legally for ten years. It’s hard to believe that these potions have actually helped her become a more successful tennis player; ...

New business is being showered around like confetti in the UK this week (Leagas Delaney has won Value Retail, BBH Uber, 101 Dunelm, Karmarama Confused.com) and now M&C Saatchi has been appointed to handle the UK government’s Department for Communities ...

“Boris moves in for the kill” bellowed the Daily Mail’s front page earlier this week, as the bumbling mayor of London, shirt hanging out no doubt, announced, after days of procrastinating, that he was to back the ‘Brexit’ camp in ...

UK TV advertising blasted through the £5bn barrier for the first time in 2015, a 7.4 per cent increase on 2014 according to new figures from TV marketing body Thinkbox. What will make Thinkbox’s TV company members just as happy ...

FCB Inferno is handling the launch campaign for Project Literacy, an initiative by education company Pearson to tackle illiteracy, which it sees as one of the world’s biggest problems, affecting one in ten people globally. Not all in the developing ...

David Patton is CEO of Grey EMEA, managing 2000 people in 27 countries across the region and focussing on building a strong creative and commercial culture. He joined the WPP-owned agency seven years ago, initially as London group CEO, following ...

Here’s Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google owner Alphabet, now the biggest company in the world by market cap at $535bn, chatting up David Cameron at a soiree in 2012. No idea what they’re talking about but I bet it wasn’t ...