PR

The woes of Tesco have been analysed in numerous ways by numerous journalists since the announcement of the £250m error in their accounts. That is indeed a very big error and presumably not just a case of someone falling asleep ...

Breast cancer charity Coppafeel is running a new awareness campaign by Karmarama and media agency MediaCom, #whatnormalfeelslike, showing women’s breasts and what they feel about them. The campaign features photographs by Rankin with typography by Alison Carmichael. It broke this ...

Corporate life used to be conducted according to certain well-mannered rules, even if the nature of the beast was ‘red in tooth and claw.’ But the decision by, first, Vodafone and then, in the most cowardly fashion, by EE (owner ...

Here’s a job to tax even the most optimistic of agency bosses. Mega-sized Russian gas producer Gazprom (left) is looking for a UK agency, according to Campaign. Russia isn’t exactly flavour of the month with other countries in Europe at ...

Good Heavens, here’s something intelligent from Ireland’s favourite bookmaker Paddy Power. The betting outfit, notorious for its ‘look at me I’m funny’ ads, has teamed with equality charity Stonewall and the Gay Football Supporters Association (wonder how many members they ...

Is this the most ridiculed ad of recent years? M&C Saatchi’s ‘Better Together’ campaign advising a No vote in the forthcoming Scottish Referendum always had a mountain to climb’ given the almost wholly negative, nay scare-mongering, tone of the ‘No’ ...

Will I need a passport…… In just over a week Scotland votes on whether to become a separate nation, breaking its ties with a 300 year old union. The debate has been deployed so far is a classic advertising problem. ...

Welcome to the master of PR. WPP’s half-year results, announced on Tuesday, were, by any rational judgement, disappointing. Earnings and profits were, in the company’s own word, “ravaged” by the strong pound and boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) proceeded to ...

Maybe Cancer Research UK has been listening to our moans to the effect that cancer charities have been sluicing up our money for decades now, with few signs that medical research is making much progress in confounding cancers. So it’s ...