The latest quarterly data from the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report show UK advertising spend rose by 4.3% to £8.5bn between July and September 2022, the ninth consecutive quarter of post-covid growth. The UK ad market is forecast to grow by ...
Read More »Accountancy giant PwC offers businesses a ‘New Equation’
If you Google PwC and fines you get a pretty long charge list, fines for mis-auditing companies ranging from BT to giants of the construction world. But the (sometimes inexact) bean counters hoovered up £5bn of revenue in 2022 and ...
Read More »Saatchi and Saatchi wades into Roe v. Wade
Saatchi & Saatchi has entered the Roe v. Wade abortion lists again with yet another use of its iconic pregnant man ad, this time with ‘50 years of men making decisions over women’s bodies.’ The ad shows the male judges ...
Read More »Ocean Outdoor UK CEO Phil Hall: how digital Out of Home is navigating a tricky economy
1/Ocean is a major Northern Europe media owner. The UK economy is reported to be lagging its European rivals. How is this playing out in Out of Home? We’re seeing a couple of interesting factors at play across 2022 and ...
Read More »Meta puts its stamp on the Rugby World Cup with BETC and partners
Meta is the official social media supplier to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, coming up in France in the autumn, and BETC, Havas Play, Havas Events and Unit9 have been signed up alongside in-house Meta Creative X to expound the ...
Read More »IPA Bellwether survey: marketers expect strongish 2023 (fingers crossed)
As the world’s self-styled economic movers and shakers gather in Davos – cautious optimism seems to be the keynote so far – back at the UK coalface it seems as though 2023 may not be the car crash many feared, ...
Read More »Ad Contrarian Bob Hoffman: why I’m no longer very interested in today’s advertising
Yesterday was so-called Blue Monday, the most misery-inducing day of the year according to some, and in the inbox was a rather distressing message from Ad Contrarian Bob Hoffman, who’s been fighting the good fight on a regular basis for ...
Read More »Saatchi wins new global asset manager ALTi
Saatchi & Saatchi has won new Nasdaq-listed asset manager Alvarium Tiedemann (AlTi), a combo of Tiedemann Group, Alvarium Investments Limited and Cartesian Growth Corp. The new company is valued at around $1.1 billion, with $60 billion in assets under management ...
Read More »Prince Harry: Elizabeth Arden goes close to the bone with cold-weather reference
Brands always talk about how they want to get “close to culture” and how much closer could you get at the moment than Prince Harry’s underpants? In his book “Spare,” he talks about applying Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream to ...
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