PR

Vodafone is pulling out of Formula One after sponsoring the McLaren team since 2007 (and before that Ferrari). The company says it wants to spend the money on more ‘local’ promotions and building the brand (which is supposed to be ...

All sorts of funny things happen in marketing and here’s another: food manufacturers actually putting real food in their products; just fancy that. Walkers Crisps is jumping on the post-horsemeat bandwagon with this ad from AMV/BBDO featuring our favourite Match ...

We’ve got horsemeat in our burgers (and much else besides) in the UK, now American drinkers are claiming that InBev, which owns Anheuser-Busch, is watering down its beer. Lawyer Josn Boxer says the practice started in 2008 when Belgian brewing ...

WPP more or less matched rivals Publicis Groupe and Havas, beat Interpublic but lagged Omnicom with growth of 2.9 per cent in 2012, according to its full year accounts released today. Billings fell slightly to around £44bn (blamed on the ...

There must be times when a client is sitting in their ad agency meeting room having just seen creative proposals, wondering what to say next. This must have been the position the team from BetVictor were in at VCCP when ...

Talking of naughtiness (or what may be construed as same – which we kind of are today) Japanese agency Absolute Territory PR has come up with a new wheeze – paying young Japanese women to apply stick-on tattoos to their ...

Any ad for an army is bound to head into a communications war zone if the army in question is involved in a shooting conflict. Which the British army in Afghanistan is, of course. This is a new ad for ...

They keep doing it, don’t they? Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorious is on trial for shooting his girlfriend and Nike, whose stable of sports stars seem defined (in part) by their ability to get into trouble, runs this ad. In a ...

Last year TBWA Manchester lost the £50m Co-op account to Leo Burnett and now its big brother in London has gone some way towards replacing the loss by winning German-owned discount supermarket chain Lidl. Lidl is reported to have been ...