Who’d be an ad executive these days? Your clients don’t like you (even the ones who think you’re OK think you’re charging to much), you’re accused of sexism and harassment on a regular basis and if you’re a really unlucky ...
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Um, what exactly is going on here? Some people say that advertising is divorced from reality and the latest UK ad expenditure figures might underline that view. According to the Advertising Association/WARC UK advertising scored its 19th consecutive quarter of ...
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UK ad expenditure grew 3.7 per cent to 10.8bn during the first half of 2017 according to new Advertising Association/WARC figures, the highest six-monthly total since records began in 1982. AA and WARC are upgrading their 2017 annual forecast to ...
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The Advertising Association is banging the drum for immigrants post-Brexit with a new campaign from adam&eveDDB based on a report – World Class Talent, World Class Advertising – which shows the the UK (London in particular) attracts more overseas ad ...
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Ad industry veteran Tim Lefroy is stepping as CEO of The Advertising Association after a seven year stint. The AA represents advertisers, agencies and media owners. Lefroy (left) says: “It’s a unique privilege to serve advertising in the AA role ...
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The so-called creative industries are said to be worth £70bn to the UK economy (shouldn’t everyone get a rebate from HMRC?) and now the Advertising Association is predicting that there will be 70,000 new advertising jobs created over the next ...
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***Silicon Valley whizz kid Gurbaksh Chahal has been forced to step down as CEO of programmatic ad specialist RadiumOne after accepting two charges of domestic violence and battery against his partner. Gurbaksh started his first company ClickAgents at the age ...
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Marketing communications executive Roger Hyslop says the recent Advertising Association figures about the contribution of advertising and related disciplines to the UK economy show that it can contribute significantly to the growth the UK badly needs. Our industry recently received ...
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An amusing industry spat has broken out between the Chartered Institute of Marketing and just about everyone else over the way the industry has been handling the vexed issue of marketing to children. One year into the Bailey era, the ...
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