PR

They think big at Coca-Cola these days, trying to appropriate ‘happiness,’ the theme of its current campaign, and now it’s teaming with music service Spotify to offer free music on its Facebook page. This, in turn, tunes in with a ...

For those who – like me – have been following the buyout shenanigans at Chime with some bemusement, the following item from Bob Willott’s Marketing Services Financial Intelligence will be of more than passing interest: Chime Communications confirmed yesterday evening ...

Heineken-owned John Smith’s is a running a campaign by Aesop, supposedly advising racegoers not to get drunk and disorderly at this weekend’s Grand National race meeting at Aintree in Liverpool, which it sponsors. But it all looks a bit half-hearted ...

Downing Street must be paved with gold – or so it must seem to Tim Allen (pictured), boss of London PR firm Portland, who has just sold a majority stake in his company to Omnicom. The deal values Portland at ...

Just about everybody in the UK hates the big energy companies, especially foreign-owned ones like France’s EDF who are suspected, rightly or wrongly, of ripping off UK customers while others get the sweetheart deals. The solution? Send for AMV/BBDO and ...

The ad by the M.A.R.K.A agency in Turkey for Biomen shampoo that featured Adolf Hitler (it’s been withdrawn now but you can see it here) has stirred up a right old hornet’s nest in Turkey and further afield. Now Turkish ...

Agency creatives put their foot in in it now and then in their desire to be noticed but Turkish agency M.A.R.K.A unwisely donned jackboots for this campaign for Biomen shampoo, featuring one Adolf Hitler. The ad also features the somewhat ...

Cabinet Office minister Francis ‘jerry can’ Maude’s legendary communications skills were on full display last week, with a gaffe that caused the Government its worst wobble since the election. Let’s hope this is not an omen. Maude (pictured) is, among ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell isn’t a fan of Lord Bell (pictured) and Piers Pottinger’s plan to buy out the Bell Pottinger PR business from Chime Communications, the PR-based marcoms business Bell chairs. Sorrell has described the plan thus: “It isn’t ...