Once upon a time there was the COI (formerly Central Office of Information) that handled UK government advertising and marketing. In its last knockings it was run by Mark Lund, now head of McCann group in the UK. The COI ...
Read More »WPP’s M4C takes UK government to court – but we’re not allowed to see why
WPP’s M4C, its bespoke media agency that has handled the UK government’s media buying for the past four years, has taken its dispute over the Government’s decision to move the business to Carat an important step further by filing court ...
Read More »GPS ad agency jury hides behind gobbledygook
UK ad agencies and trade body the IPA are appealing against the Government Cabinet Office’s recent shortlist to pitch for nearly £300m of government ad business. The Government Procurement Service’s application procedure (to get on the shortlist) was apparently based ...
Read More »UK government’s new ad agency ‘procurement’ system is a nightmare designed by a committee
The follies of the UK’s coalition government know no bounds and now this collection of muppets – who promised a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ when it came into power in 2010 – has produced a procurement system for agencies that ...
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