PR

Here’s an interesting initiative from Highways England by adam&eveDDB with Haygarth, ‘BikerTek’ parts ‘shops’ at motorcycling events showing the bits of titanium that end up in your body when you have a motorbike accident (assuming it’s not fatal of course.) ...

John Lewis, the venerable British retailer which also owns upscale supermarket chain Waitrose, is in trouble. The partnership, it’s a mutual, lost nearly 27m in the first half of 2019 following zero profit in 2018. Whatever magic adam&eveDDB comes up ...

This ad bu Dior with Johnny Depp (no dafter than most of its genre) has been pulled after objections from Native Americans including the two in it (who were, presumably, handsomely rewarded for their efforts.) Hard to see what the ...

Government minister (and one-time Boris Johnson foe) Michael Gove is due to announce details of the UK government’s £100m campaign to prepare the country for Brexit next week – with the less than rousing “Get Ready” as its theme. Some ...

We’re a pretty unhealthy lot here in the UK it seems and, short of a cull of anyone who doesn’t fit the right BMI index, government and others are trying hard to persuade us to exercise more. So government-funded Sport ...

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 ...