In advertising there are a couple of things you can guarantee during the first few weeks of the year. Firstly, every agency in town will be magically pulling new clients out of thin air to add on to their new ...
Read More »UK ad regulator gets volley of complaints about Sainsbury’s Christmas Great War epic
240 at the last count, complaining that the ad (below) is, among other things, ‘disrespectful’ and ‘cynical.’ Which is worrying for Sainsbury’s because UK ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a number of ads in recent times ...
Read More »UK government’s new GCS spinners can’t tell the difference between strategy and operations
The UK coalition government, which has managed to get its communications knickers in a fine old twist, is having a belated go at sorting things out with the formation of a new ‘centralised’ Government Communications Service. This, presumably, takes on ...
Read More »Marmite lands in trouble over ‘Neglect’ ad
Hmm, dunno what to make of this. It’s a new Marmite ad (from A&E/DDB presumably) purporting to show ‘in danger’ jars of ‘love it or hate it’ Marmite being rescued and despatched to good homes. But it’s already attracted a ...
Read More »Two fingers to social media from defiant Ryanair
I was amused to read that the incoming head of comms at Ryanair (forgive the oxymoron) has “deliberately” ruled out a social media strategy. New boy Robin Kiely (left) tells us – apparently without irony – that such an initiative ...
Read More »Assorted loonies (including the ASA) take aim at the (rather good) Morrisons Christmas campaign
Aaargh! The UK ad watchdog The Advertising Standards Authority is investigating the Morrisons Christmas campaign because some people have complained that the main ad is sexist: It’s a joke you muppets – and half the population is female. Would it ...
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