PR

IPA President Sarah Golding is conducting a crusade to make the business love those dreaded machine functions, such as AI, or at least co-exist with them more comfortably. Now her agency CHI&Partners is launching a ‘Magic & The Machines’ competition ...

Qatar airways has appointed Amsterdam’s 180 Kingsday as its global creative AOR. Omnicon-owned 180 Kingsday will work on brand campaigns for Qatar Airways including work on its official partnership with FIFA and upcoming associated events, including the 2018 FIFA World ...

It never rains but it pours at WPP it seems, at least this year. Trading difficulty is one thing (not unique to WPP as all the holding companies are suffering) but, so far this year, it’s been caught in the ...

Should they go further and blacklist controversial clients? A Guardian investigation reveals that various WPP PR and lobbying firms have been trousering fees from America’s National Rifle Association (NRA), a perfectly legal organisation, for years even while WPP agencies including ...

Unilever’s Dove is in hot water for a Facebook ad that seems to show a black woman turning into a white one, courtesy of Dove. A somewhat abashed Unilever says “This did not represent the diversity of real beauty which ...

Japanese sportswear brand Asics has confirmed the appointment of Saatchi & Saatchi as its global agency of record. The account will be led by Saatchi’s Los Angeles and Tokyo offices. Earlier this this month Asics and Saatchi launched ‘Wake Up’ ...

Here’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg outlining nine things the social network is going to do to prevent nasties invading its space: specifically some 3,000 Russia-originated anti-Clinton election ads it’s magnanimously agreed to share with the US Congress, which is investigating election ...

Every week seems to bring a new disaster for Facebook – not one that seems to affect its money-hoovering activities mind – and now it’s the discovery by ProPublica that you can target the news feeds of over 2,000 people ...

Paris has won the race to handle the 2024 Olympics, for the third time after 1900 and 1924 (Chariots of Fire and all that). Hosting the Olympics is not necessarily a benefit: London 2012 arguably was (not least for West ...