At some stage we’ll have to go back of work, meaning the office. At least some of us will, probably single people under the age of 30 who don’t live with their parents. That’s what the FT thinks the Government ...
Read More »Covid-19: leaderless UK government flounders in death toll
It was another bad day for the UK government and the rest of us as Covid-19 deaths rose above 900, not what we hoped for after the optimistic noises we heard earlier in the week. We know, or we’ve been ...
Read More »New Havas Media research underlines key BBC role in Covid-19 crisis
The Covid-19 outbreak could be the saviour of Britain’s embattled BBC, not so long ago facing the prospect of being sidelined by a hostile Tory government that refused to allow ministers to even speak to its flagship Radio 4 Today ...
Read More »Out of Home industry hymns UK workers in Covid-19 campaign from Outsmart and Mother
The UK Out of Home industry, via trade body Outsmart, and Mother are launching a nationwide digital OOH campaign – ‘Grateful Britain’ – hymning the many workers, not just NHS staff, keeping the country going in the Coronavirus crisis. Produced ...
Read More »Analysis from Talon’s Ada shows true UK population movement during Covid-19
Groundbreaking analysis from Ada, Talon Outdoor’s proprietary intelligent data management platform has uncovered that the first two weeks in March had above average movement for the UK population before dramatically declining in the third week by -21% nationally, with London ...
Read More »Mindshare Covid-19 attitudes survey shows UK bearing up – but more clarity is needed
WPP media agency Mindshare UK, along with many others, has been looking into attitudes in the light of the Covid-19 crisis, finding, which won’t surprise anyone, high levels of concern and anxiety across all age groups and households but tracking ...
Read More »50 per cent down – is April’s UK adspend falling off a cliff?
April is the cruellest month famously opined TS Eliot (can’t help recalling a celebrated Private Eye spoof with January, February and March crossed out by Ezra Pound – try April, he wrote.) But it’s no laughing matter for UK adland ...
Read More »WPP’s Read backs agency efforts in the crisis – but are they doing enough?
Are agencies doing their bit in the Covid-19 crisis? WPP CEO Mark Read (below) thinks they are. Writing this week he said: “At WPP, we are working with international health authorities to promote effective handwashing, and we have offered our ...
Read More »St Luke’s duo try to help out by putting NHS into reverse
More creativity in the land of Coronavirus, St Luke’s top creatives Richard Denney and Al Young have created a new logo to be shared on social media, Stay Home Now (SHN) which is simply the existing NHS (National Health Service) ...
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