PR

Sir Martin Sorrell (pictured), whose WPP marcoms group owns 18 per cent of old colleague Lord Bell’s Chime Communications, says he opposes the plan by Lord Bell and other senior managers including Piers Pottinger, to buy out parts of the ...

Forget Max Clifford, The Outside Organisation’s Alan Edwards is the doyen of the populist PR world. Edwards began his career in the music business (like Clifford), acting for the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and David Bowie before broadening Outside’s ...

McDonald’s is always damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t, witness the fuss over the recent TV campaign praising its farmer suppliers. Now it’s in the process of providing more ammunition for its legions of critics by revamping ...

The time has come to fess up to my role in Horsegate. I have ridden a horse since 2010, and more than several times too. It would be a surprise if I hadn’t, you see, because I own one. Well, ...

Cannes really is taking over the world; not only does it dominate the advertising (and much else) awards calendar but it’s trying to change the world too. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, set up to spend some of the ...

This is a job and a half and no mistake. Mimi Turner (pictured), European television editor of the Hollywood Reporter, is joining Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell as its first group communications director. Desmond owns UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 ...

One-time front-running Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was the guy who was finally going to prove to all the sceptics that advertising works – by winning the Republican nomination just because he had a much bigger ad budget than any ...

StrawberryFrog – the maverick advertising micro network – up for sale? Come again? When, late last year, I had the temerity to suggest that was indeed the case, SF founder, chairman, chief executive and great panjandrum Scott Goodson (pictured) took ...

This is becoming a bit of a trend, News International has awarded its £28m ad account (does it really spend that much on external media?) to holding company WPP. WPP is to set up ‘Team News’ to handle News international’s ...