Politics
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Does Ogilvy need to take a moral stand on CPB border work?
WPP’s Ogilvy finds itself in hot water over a video produced for the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CPB)…
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Fairy becomes Fair as P&G pursues LGBT agenda
P&G is rebranding Fairy (Fairy Liquid as was) as Fair in its latest effort to effect societal change/be a corporate…
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Now Boris comes out in support of sugary ads – we think
If, as expected, we get Boris Johnson as the next UK prime minister (possibly only for a week or so…
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Cancer Research UK in trouble for linking “obesity” with smoking in controversial new campaign
Many people would argue that the first job of advertising is to be noticed and Cancer Research UK’s current poster…
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Roy Jeans: why Facebook’s new digital currency Libra will be strangled at birth
A YouGov survey recently revealed that six out of ten voters would not buy a used car from Boris Johnson.…
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Is P&G’s new purpose ad ‘The Look’ really a cop out?
Here’s another much-trumpeted dollop of purpose from P&G, ‘The Look’ from the Saturday Morning collective. Showing a black man and…
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Samir Patel: does purpose-driven advertising do good causes more harm than good?
This year at Cannes we saw the expected deluge of purpose-focused winners, from the massive Dream Crazy ad from Nike…
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Is digital currency Libra set to become Facebook’s Midland Bank moment?
Readers with (very) long memories may recall that in 1987 the Saatchi brothers, then running the world’s biggest agency group,…
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Jane Austin: why do people in advertising – especially CMOs – have to speak in riddles?
Trust was the most popular word at Cannes this year, the actual meaning of which covers a multitude of strategies…
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