PR

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 ...

Let’s try to look at this logically. Football is a big business in the UK (BSkyB’s humungous profits depend on it, almost entirely). We have a very expensive Premier League of high-performing clubs, some of whose players are English. The ...

Well the bloke hasn’t had much to cheer him up recently, having lost a million quid bonus and been vilified by politicians of all hues, mostly for their own hypocritical purposes. Why hypocritical? Labour fuelled the City’s bonus culture and ...

$500m in bonuses may not be much by the standards of Goldman Sachs or Barclays Capital (whose bonus pools run into billions) but WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has moved to get his retaliation in first as the marcoms giant prepares ...

If only it were possible to blame the whole disaster on Captain Schettino’s recklessness on Friday 13th last, Carnival – ultimate owner of the Costa Concordia – would surely have succeeded in cauterizing a brand crisis of epic proportions quite ...

Lord Bell (Tim Bell as was) and Piers Pottinger are reported to be organising a management buy-out of Bell Pottinger, the PR company they founded in 1989 when Bell left ad agency Lowe Howard-Spink (& Bell). Bell Pottinger, currently owned ...

Well maybe not Labour leader Ed Miliband although it’s surprising that no-one has reminded him yet that RBS boss Stephen Hester’s generous deal at the nearly-nationalised bank was struck by former Labour PM Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling. And ...

Arrested: four senior Sun hacks, plus an allegedly bent copper. Is this the moment that damage to the Sun newspaper brand becomes systemic and unstoppable? Not if News Corp, which ultimately owns the title, has calculated correctly. After all, the ...