PR

PR firm Bell Pottinger, found guilty by all parties, including the investigation it commissioned from a law firm, of engaging in unethical practices for the Gupta brothers in South Africa, has been drummed out of the Public Relations Consultants Association ...

Bell Pottinger CEO James Henderson (left) has resigned in the wake of the Gupta scandal – the UK PR firm has been accused on fomenting a fake news scandal to bolster the fortunes of the Indian Gupta family in South ...

US fruit drink and iced tea brand Snapple has picked BMB to develop a new approach to its social marketing. Previous marketing efforts in the UK have involved adapting US content for UK social channels. Snapple’s new brand position is ...

McDonald’s, which moved its massive US ad account into DDB’s new We Are Unlimited operation last year, has given Leo Burnett London a big vote of confidence by appointing it to handle its global sports sponsorship activity. McDonald’s recently ended ...

The UK’s IPA agency trade body has formally called on Google-owned YouTube and Facebook to work with the IPA and ISBA (the advertiser equivalent) to bring the safety, measurement and viewabillity of their online video up to acceptable industry standards. ...

When your (highly paid) job is to work behind the scenes it’s usually commercial suicide to become the story. This is exactly what is happening to London PR firm Bell Pottinger – whether or not it amounts to commercial suicide ...

There’s no company more synonymous with “white” than Procter & Gamble, for entirely understandable laundry-related reasons. But P&G is now taking another turn on the slippery ‘advertising for good’ slopes with a new campaign – ‘My black is beautiful’ – ...

Britain’s biggest PR firm, Bell Pottinger, 25 per cent owned by Chime Communications in which WPP is a substantial shareholder, is embroiled in a life-threatening row over its work for the controversial South African Gupta brothers who have prospered mightily ...

When people, and indeed whole countries, began investing mind-boggling sums in football and football players it seemed as though they’d gone mad. Maybe they had but the rest of the world of the world seems to have caught up with ...