BT is waging the broadband wars with a vengeance, here’s the latest from Saatchi & Saatchi featuring ‘Pixelated Paula,’ an exec driven nuts by crappy broadband. We’ve all been there, in the UK at least, with BT historically taking much ...
Read More »BT backs FA Playmaker’s bid for more diversity in football
Football in the UK is (almost) back – did it ever go away? – and the Football Association, supported by BT, is launching a Playmaker scheme aimed at signing up 100,000 grassroots volunteers to help out and make involvement in ...
Read More »BT promises freedom for TV viewers in ambitious new Saatchi campaign
BT finally seems to be offering people what they want, rather than it wants, with the launch of a new range of TV packages promising to free prisoners of their (existing) TV packages. BT director of marketing communications Pete Jeavons ...
Read More »Does BT merit its new Saatchi Halo?
Publicis Groupe seems to have tightened its grip on BT from AMV BBDO with another effort from Saatchi & Saatchi, this time for BT’s overarching Halo product, its introduction to the much-trumpeted 5G among other things. May be a bit ...
Read More »Deutsche adds to telecoms cocktail at Saatchi London
Saatchi & Saatchi is doing pretty well out of BT in its various manifestations. It’s handled BT’s EE for years (to the heartfelt thanks of Kevin Bacon fans), just produced a more than capable new BT corporate campaign and now ...
Read More »Ex-Ogilvy Clare Donald joins King’s team at Publicis as production supremo
Publicis UK, which sits on top of Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and the Publicis agency under country manager Annette King, is looking a lot like Ogilvy. King was UK boss of Ogilvy Group before moving to Publicis and now ...
Read More »BT moves onto front foot with big new corporate drive from Saatchi & Saatchi
BT has switched from long-serving AMV BBDO to Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi for what it says is its biggest brand campaign for 20 years, tied to the promise to make five million kids “tech-enabled.” Which brings safety and opportunity ...
Read More »BT’s ‘Be There’ campaign loses its compass
Many years ago, in the age of dial-up telephones, BT used to tell us “it’s good to talk.” As it would, as BT’s services were about the only way you could do this unless you were face to face. Now ...
Read More »BT goes back to basics but is there anything there?
BT and agency AMV BBDO seems to have given up on expensive celebs – Ryan Reynold and Alec Baldwin among them – to try to recreate it’s glory days of ‘it’s good to talk’ and many before that. Didn’t they ...
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