PR

The UK’s NHS seems to lurch from crisis to crisis no matter how much money is thrown at it. Now it’s running out of nurses as we head into another virus-ridden winter. MullenLowe, recently re-appointed to the main ad account, ...

Interpublic (IPG) is the new leader in Q3 organic revenue growth among the big holding companies with 15% (Publicis was 11.2 and Omnicom 11.5) on a rise in net revenue of 15.7% to $2.26bn ($1.95bn last year.) Organic revenue grew ...

Go on then, what would you call Facebook? The always under fire (and ever-richer) social network is reportedly changing its name. Various new ones have been bandied around: Campaign suggests Metaverse as this Mark Zuckerberg’s new frontier. Why not try ...

Viennese artists were a pretty rum lot at the turn of the 20th century (Hitler had a brief but unsuccessful career as a painter there – worse luck) and the Viennese Tourist Board is trading on those days with a ...

Marketing scores better than other industries when it comes to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion according to a new survey by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and Kantar. So that’s all right then? Not quite. Even though marketing scored an ...

John Lewis ads usually take centre stage at this time of year – much speculation about its Christmas effort, will it be Adele? – but it’s Home Insurance under the spotlight now with its recent effort accused by social media ...

Remember when subliminal advertising was deemed a threat to humankind? No? Well it was “the use by advertisers of images and sounds to influence consumers’ responses without their being consciously aware of it.” First discovered, allegedly, in 1947 when it ...

The dog that hasn’t barked yet as the marcoms world inches back to post-pandemic normality is M&A, the big deals that everyone expects but which haven’t, so far, happened. WPP, once the busiest acquirer, has pulled in its horns during ...

It’s 60 years since the female contraceptive pill made its debut in the UK and it’s taken all those 60 years to be made available to women without a prescription, which sounds rather tardy (you still need to see a ...