It’s pretty clear that the world economy will slide into recession this year (some definitions of recession are less than two per cent growth, in the UK it’s two quarters of negative growth) and the hitherto booming global ad market ...
Read More »Time for Johnson’s UK government to cut the PR games and level with people over Covid-19
Sometimes it’s better just to give people the news straight. Here’s Ministry of Defence Spokesman Ian McDonald in 1982 on the Falklands War, and the many reverses that encounter entailed. McDonald was much mocked at the time but people believed ...
Read More »UK premier Boris Johnson fluffs his lines over COVID-19
I caught up belatedly with Boris Johnson revealing the outcome of his (somewhat delayed) Cobra emergency cabinet committee meeting, when he seemed to be making some fairly sensible “steady as you go” comments about the COVID-19 outbreak (better give it ...
Read More »BETC hacks Instagram to track down missing people
There are some booming activities in these straightened times, unfortunately people trafficking is one of them. According to UN data 2019 was the year with the highest human trafficking rate of the decade, 24.9 million people with 88 per cent ...
Read More »Nick Bailey of futurefactor: why Pride still needs rebels for a risky cause
The days are at last getting longer, birds are singing in the trees, the first buds of spring are nosing through the soil, and across the world of advertising and marketing, thoughts are turning to love. Or, more specifically, to ...
Read More »Red Brick Road wins lead agency role on free-from Nomo
Red Brick Road has been appointed as lead PR and social agency by maker Kinnerton to promote Nomo, claimed to be the UK’s leading free-from chocolate brand. Nomo is dairy, gluten, egg and nut free. Red Brick Road will also ...
Read More »Prince Harry enters the “ethical” travel trade with Travalyst
We all wondered what Harry and Meghan, about to be freed from royal duties would do next, and now we know some of it – Prince Harry (he’s still a prince and the Duke of Sussex as far as we ...
Read More »Whoops – Yorkshire Tea becomes Tory Tea
All publicity is good publicity? Not in the social media age it isn’t. Boris Johnson’s new chancellor Rishi Sunak, an unfeasibly rich Yorkshire dweller (he married into the Infosys family and is a former hedge fund partner) probably thought he’d ...
Read More »‘Advertising pays’ is core message of Bloomberg bid
Michael Bloomberg is up from four per cent to 19 per cent among Democratic voters and, despite getting a pasting from his rival candidates the other night, looks set to face off against Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Presidential nomination. ...
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