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Covid-19 is “no respecter of individuals” UK cabinet secretary Michael Gove said when PM Boris Johnson was hospitalised, neatly deflecting a questioner who wondered why lots of people in 10 Downing Street had got it. That certainly seems to be ...

Amid the ravages of Covid-19 it’s easy to overlook the devastating effect of other illnesses. One such is Parkinson’s and in Australia Parkinson’s NSW and WundermanThompson are launching a campaign to help people spot the symptoms, using the good old ...

Was this the high water mark of an era in advertising? When big TV campaigns on the biggest stage (the Super Bowl in 2011) could move people and companies? ‘Imported from Detroit’ (aka ‘Born of Fire’) with Eminem from Wieden+Kennedy ...

World football body Fifa has rounded up a gaggle of footballers – present and past, female and male, some of whom you may have heard of – to clap for Covid-19 workers and, presumably, sufferers. A bit late in the ...

Something is clearly stirring in Britain’s BT – if it goes on like this people will even end up liking it, not seen since the days of Maureen Lipman – and it’s running BT Tech Tips in ITV airtime, to ...

There will be a Cannes of sorts this year: Cannes Lions Live, a free digital offer that will run throughout June under the theme ‘Creativity Matters.’ Activity will peak during the original dates of the Festival of Creativity, 22-26 June. ...

The notion that you should keep advertising in a downturn (even if most of the shops are shut) hasn’t found many friends amid Covid-19 (the UK’s Johnny Hornby made the case recently although his old boss Sir Martin Sorrell said ...

Ten days ago we noted that the UK’s Covid-19 crisis could turn into a political crisis – and it has. At the weekend the Sunday Times’ Insight Team – once the vanguard of investigative journalism in the UK, more recently ...

When media, marketers and agencies are having such a tough time, it seems wrong to gripe, but this compilation shows that any businesses brave enough to advertise at the moment are treading very, very carefully indeed. YouTuber Michael Sam has ...