PR

After two years JWT and owner WPP have settled the sexual harassment case brought by chief communications officer Erin Johnson against former JWT global boss Gustavo Martinez. JWT says it has “reached an amicable settlement agreement with Erin Johnson, chief ...

It goes from bad to worse at WPP but nobody expected an external investigation into the conduct of CEO and company founder Sir Martin Sorrell (below). WPP said: “The Board of WPP has appointed independent counsel to conduct an investigation ...

Olympic medalist Tom Daley has been caught doing something he shouldn’t. He’s been diving from a 10-metre board with an HTC phone in his hand and encouraging other people to do the same. An eagle-eyed viewer complained to the Advertising ...

Ad agencies are often pilloried as a “boy’s club” and a mostly white one at that. The same is broadly true of the upper echelons of the marketing world, according to a new “scorecard” released by the Us Association of ...

Here’s embattled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, looking a bit sweaty but you can’t really blame him for that, spelling out to CNN what Facebook is going to do to clean up its act on personal data storage and privacy. Interesting ...

I see that IPA president and The&Partnership London CEO is leading an ‘industry-wide initiative’ to put a stop to Top Five leavers’ emails. A recent one, which received nationwide media coverage, was sent by departing T&P planner Paul Martin (for ...

The Cambridge Analytica affair may be the biggest threat to Facebook to date; far more so than Russian meddling in the last US Presidential Election (the Cambridge Analytica gang were much cleverer in the way they harvested data from, virtually, ...

Yesterday we had timeTo, a somewhat belated effort to tackle sexism and its consequences in UK agencies from, among others, The Advertising Association and women’s ad group Wacl. Now in the US, where there’ve been more cases of sexual harassment, ...

Did you know there was a “tradition” among London agencies of sending out ‘Top Five” and “Bottom Five” rankings of female employees by their looks when someone leaves? Me neither but planner Paul Martin at The&Partnership, currently claiming it’s “big, ...