PR

The UK’s ASA has banned its first ads under its new fatwa against “harmful gender stereotypes,” ads from Mondelez’s Philadelphia and VW which ASA investigations manager Jess Tye says could cause “real world harms.” In the case of Philadelphia, which ...

I see that London agency BBD Perfect Storm has picked picked up some global work, maybe all the work, for Unilever’s Dove Men+Care, previously handled by Ogilvy. As such it’s a big feather in the cap for the UK indie. ...

21st century tech is a wonderful thing for early stage investors and – sometimes – consumers but it seems to becoming increasingly difficult to make money out of it. Ride hailing giant Uber is laying off 400 of its 1200 ...

Looks like we’re in for much more US-style online marketing as Boris Johnson takes over as British prime minister. Facebook has a tidal wave of ads (more than 500 different ones so far) featuring BoJo and his plans for call ...

By Archie Heaton A big part of the ad industry’s job is to understand what people think, to have our finger on the pulse. This is, to a large extent, what brands pay us for; to translate what consumers are ...

Ogilvy employees are protesting – vociferously – about the agency’s work for the US Customs and Border Protection agency, blamed for separating children from their parents at border “facilities”. This is said to have led to the deaths of seven ...

Is Omnicom – which owns BBDO, TBWA, DDB and Omnicom Media Group among others – doing well or badly? Its shares fell three per cent yesterday when it reported a 3.6 per cent drop in second quarter revenue in Q2 ...

We worry sometimes at MAA that we don’t write enough about diversity – at one time we thought it was a new holding company – so it’s pleasing to refer you to our friend George Parker’s take on sexist ads ...

You may have heard of Huawei (pronounced wah-way), it’s not Donald Trump’s favourite technology company or that of many security types around the world. Trouble is (from their point of view) the Chinese giant has lots of capability others don’t. ...