Politics

Cannes Lions has banned Russian entries and delegates from the country from this year’s festival following the invasion of Ukraine. Cannes owner Ascential says: “We stand together with our friends in Ukraine and our many partners and community members in ...

A lot going on in the world this week and the doings of advertisers, agencies, media owners and the rest rather pale into insignificance. Here are a few bits though. Actually what caught our attention most (nothing to do with ...

Hats off to WPP CEO Mark Read for speaking at a WACL event on menopause in the workplace. The WPP CEO, keen to keep senior women on board, linked concerns around menopause in the workplace to the talent crisis. He ...

Should global advertisers present in Russia continue to advertise, or impose their own sanctions folowing the invasion of Ukraine? A question lots of advertisers are no doubt asking and marketing consultancy Flock Associates is running a poll to ask them ...

On the face of it, yes. Meta’s WhatsApp has been the main means for people in Ukraine and, as crucially, in Russia to find out what’s actually going on in the Russian invasion – despite the efforts of Vladimir Putin’s ...

Vladimir Putin’s Hitler-style invasion of Ukraine – it’s straight from the 1930’s playbook of Czechoslovakia and Poland (Russia came later, of course) – is a problem for everyone. But what do you do? It’s a problem for those multinationals, including ...

The UK’s Advertising Association (AA) is spearheading an export drive with the Department for International Trade (DIT) to try to boost UK adland’s sales aboard. Previous (virtual) effort are said to have increased UK ad business in China by more ...

Top tier Olympic sponsors fork out $100m or so each games but they must be pretty pee’d off about the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Not only is China on the world’s naughty step because of its treatment of minorities (and ...

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries took a break from bashing the BBC and bigging up Boris Johnson to speak at the ad industry’s annual conference about her plans for regulating online advertising. In characteristically upbeat fashion, she offered a rosy picture ...