We only ask because the UK Supreme court has ruled that most of PM Boris Johnson’s wheezes – like proroguing Parliament – are not legal (the court says Parliament is still sitting.) Johnson tried to claim he did this – ...
Read More »Boris begins time in office with a Facebook deluge
Looks like we’re in for much more US-style online marketing as Boris Johnson takes over as British prime minister. Facebook has a tidal wave of ads (more than 500 different ones so far) featuring BoJo and his plans for call ...
Read More »Now Boris comes out in support of sugary ads – we think
If, as expected, we get Boris Johnson as the next UK prime minister (possibly only for a week or so but we’ll see) there may be a reprieve for sugary drinks manufacturers and their handmaidens (ad and media agencies) as ...
Read More »Piers Newson-Smith: why behavioural science can lead to dangerous marketing as well as bad politics
If you want to find the cutest animal on the planet, you could do worse that the slow loris. It’s a little nocturnal primate that can melt your heart strings with bigger eyes than Puss in Boots from Shrek. YouTube ...
Read More »Tories all over the place before Election cameras
Who on earth is co-ordinating, if that’s not too grand a word, the Tories’ General Election campaign. Not M&C Saatchi surely, who should know about these things. Aussie spinmeister and legendary control freak Lynton Crosby? Then where is he? Here’s ...
Read More »Maria, Boris and Chris Evans: three reasons why the cult of celebrity backfires – for brands too
*Tennis player Maria Sharapova (below) is facing a four-year ban for taking some tablets she claims she’s been taking legally for ten years. It’s hard to believe that these potions have actually helped her become a more successful tennis player; ...
Read More »Will agencies have a big part – or just a bit part – to play in 2015’s political bunfights?
“Boris moves in for the kill” bellowed the Daily Mail’s front page earlier this week, as the bumbling mayor of London, shirt hanging out no doubt, announced, after days of procrastinating, that he was to back the ‘Brexit’ camp in ...
Read More »Wispa and Fallon unveil Boris-style ‘frothy beast.’
Mondelez is pretty active at the moment and the former Kraft snacks business is launching Cadbury Wispa Hot Chocolate (Wispa’s a Cadbury chocolate brand) with this new TV campaign, ‘Frothy Beast’ (as opposed to sexy beast), from Fallon. Which rather ...
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