Tag Archives: Channel 4

Channel 4 is promising to lift the lid on Brexit tonight (Monday) with a film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, the mastermind behind the successful Brexit campaign. The ever-ingenious Taylor Herring is promoting it with C4’s version of the ...

When brands stick their necks out to embrace diversity and do the right thing, they invariably suffer a social media backlash from bigots. Channel 4 is exposing brand-focused hate speech with a themed ad break during Gogglebox, when three big ...

Former Channel 4 boss and St Luke’s founder David Abraham is bouncing back on the scene with the year’s most significant start-up, cross-discipline creative outfit Wonderhood Studios. Wonderhood claims it will forge a new production model by “bringing together skills ...

Lloyds has won Channel 4’s £1m of free airtime for a good works campaign, this year’s theme being “non-visible disability.” The winning campaign, by Lloyds’ agency adam&eveDDB, was produced in a rush after the original “winner” Volvo pulled out as ...

Realeyes assesses Christmas ads through facial recognition and top this year is Coca-Cola’s link-up with Channel 4’s Gogglebox showing viewers responding to the “iconic” Coca-Cola truck ad. Influenced, no doubt, by the real Coca-Cola trucks that have been scouring the ...

Ever heard of Alex Mahon? Nope, me neither but she’s the new CEO of Channel 4. She’s the former boss of Shine, the producer Elizabeth Murdoch founded, and currently works for a Hollywood special effects company. Mahon (below) is well ...

Amsterdam agency We Are Pi – which describes itself as an “idea company” – is bridging the gap between ads and entertainment (ads used to be entertaining of course) with the launch of Pi Studios. Its first broadcast commission is ...

Channel 4 CEO David Abraham is stepping down to launch his own “media enterprise” in 2018. Abraham (below), a founder of the St Luke’s ad agency, was a left field choice to succeed marketing man Andy Duncan as C4 boss ...

Channel 4 CEO David Abraham has shown a sure touch since he took over in 2010, even his decision to ditch Big Brother, its biggest ratings winner, now doesn’t look quite so daft. But he may be wondering exactly what ...