PR

What a difference a quarter makes. While 2019 remained gloomy for the high street, some positives still reared their heads – there were record Black Friday sales and consumer sentiment improved. Then in one fell swoop, nearly all marketing plans ...

When you’re producing zillions of bits a content a day the odd howler is going to slip through but this Instagram effort from Volkswagen is a peach. Racist or what? So we’ve had VW board members frantically grovelling in public ...

It’s Ramadan in the UK so Tesco is promoting its halal meats with this lively effort from BBH (presumably) as part of its ‘Food Love Stories’ campaign. Predictably it’s provoked a Twitter storm, in large part from people who disapprove ...

By Caroline Davison. Covid-19 may end up being the kick up the backside that we in adland need to get our priorities straight. We’re now realising that the Climate Crisis will affect us all and change our lives beyond recognition. ...

Sunday was International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (blimey, all of them at once) and We Are Social Milan has produced a supporting campaign for IKEA to run across 25 of the retail giant’s markets (five missing, wonder which ...

It’s interesting observing Publicis Groupe in the coronavirus crisis: go-go CEO Arthur Sadoun is making quite touchy feely videos weekly to inspire the troops while the number of said troops seems to be reducing rapidly. But thinning the ranks seems ...

Marketing Week’s lively columnist Mark Ritson has suggested the UK government enlist a “dirty dozen” from adland to sort its garbled communications over the switch from “stay home” to “stay alert” as Covid-19 lockdown eases. Some of whom I know ...

International charity WaterAid has appointed Don’t Panic to handle a three to five year campaign to help it bring clean water and associated hygiene to poor and marginalised communities. The agency is currently developing a Coronavirus response campaign showing how ...

New figures from Ad Age show that US agencies and other communications companies (including PR) cut 36,400 jobs in April as Covid-19 struck, down 7.5 per cent. Hardly surprising as up to 20 million jobs across the US have been ...