PR

Is ‘Brand Damage’ a consideration for the City? A financial journalist in the business press last weekend referred to ‘brand damage’ in a piece about M&S (which reported its annual profits today). It is the first time I’ve read this ...

Here’s a rather charming (longish) piece of advertainment in Cornetto’s ‘Cupidity’ series of love stories. This one features a rather unlikely romance between a tennis player and a line judge (both female) with a cameo appearance by Lily Allen. Directed ...

For all the hullaballoo Tourism Australia’s ‘So where the bloody hell are you?’ campaign stirred in the mid ‘00s for its use of ‘bad’ words, at least it bloody well said something. The message was clear – we’re having a ...

***Legendary director Joe Pytka (left) is to be the fourth person to receive the “Lion of St Mark’ award, the Cannes adfest’s lifetime achievement award. The other recipients have been Dan Wieden, BBH’s Sir John Hegarty and TBWA Media Arts ...

In the blue corner we have WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell and in the red corner my friend George Parker of Adscam fame. And this particular fight (they’ve had the odd tussle over the years)? Who, if anyone, is going to ...

The coalition government has published its Government Communication Plan and it’s planning to spend £289m on ‘proactive communications’ in 2014/15, a whopping 22 per cent increase on the £237m spent in 2013/14. And 2015 is General Election year in the ...

BBDO New York is running a blockbuster corporate campaign online for GE, the one-time General Electric company that has morphed into one one of the world’s bigger and more mysterious corporations. Essentially GE makes big things and one such, it ...

John Wren, CEO of Omnicom, has sworn never again to attempt a merger of equal partners in the wake of the collapsed deal with Publicis. As the wisdom of M&A specialists would say: “there is not such a thing as ...

Claire Beale (left) is returning to her old redoubt at Campaign following 13 months in exile as ‘brand editor’ of fellow Haymarket title Marketing (now a monthly). She’s moved up in the world though, she’s now going to be editor ...