Politics

It’s no doubt lazy to say that social media et al. is making idiots of us all. Trouble is it seems to be true. A new report from J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group called The Political Consumer claims that consumers ...

Another week done and dusted, another huge sack of shredded paper heading off to the recycling bin, Snapfax fans. Once again, we’ve been satisfying the voracious appetite of our fax machine fed from the internet, which is in turn attached ...

Martin Sorrell (as he then was) built WPP into a £22bn advertising behemoth by buying big agency brands (JWT then Ogilvy then Y&R then Grey) in the days when they planned and bought media as well. Now they don’t the ...

We suggested that Wieden+Kennedy’s ‘Bud Light Party’ campaign for AB InBev with Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen was a high wire act and so it’s proved: agency (and client) have just fallen off it. Here’s the Super Bowl launch ad. ...

Addressing the nation on the wireless this morning (he doesn’t really require an interviewer) WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell (below) had to try to sound downbeat about the UK’s Brexit vote even as the fall in the value of the ...

Welcome back, Snapfax fans – those of you who can’t get enough of our fax machine fed from the internet and attached to a single shredder, to discover who are this week’s favourite shreds. This week, we have taken a ...

Finally data is emerging that should put the fear of God into adland and the the UK a whole. Omnicom UK (below) managed organic growth of five per cent in Q3. Deduct the currency bounce as the money is converted ...

Is there a better bellwether of public opinion that what they wish to shred? And so this week and on an ongoing basis we will peer into the highly sophisticated data feed that is provided by Snapfax, a Fax Machine ...

Captive Media, which instals games and other interactive promotions in urinals, has gone global with a game based on the US Presidential Election – ‘Wee The People.” Gentlemen (Captive haven’t perfected a ladies’ version yet) are invited to aim left ...