We may be doing well with Covid vaccines in the UK (although PM Boris Johnson is currently telling us it’s the lockdown that has reduced infections – what’s he on?) but the powers-that-be aren’t letting go yet. Now they’re inviting ...
Read More »Google shines a light into covid vaccine murk
Google has clearly hit the right note with this new call to action – specifically inviting people to search for “covid vaccine near me” so they can get back to things they love. Normal life, that is. Juxtaposing popular pandemic ...
Read More »Archie Heaton: why flagging Labour needs to take a leaf out of the marketing textbook
The UK’s Labour Party (12 years in opposition now) has something much worse than a policy problem; it has a marketing problem. This week, one of the architects of New Labour – an unsurprisingly dissatisfied Lord Mandelson (left) – called ...
Read More »UK government pandemic advertising tops £240m in 2020
UK government advertising in 2020 reached £163m (up 237%) with, on top of that, £80m from Public Health England (almost eight times the preceding year’s level) showing the ad impact of the Covid-19 epidemic. Most of this was spent with ...
Read More »Sooner collective charts upbeat route out of UK lockdown
A group of adland’s finest including Sir Nigel Bogle and Robert Campbell are – what’s the word, curating? – a social media campaign #LetsGetThereSooner inviting people to say what they’re looking forward to post-lockdown. And reminding them, as you do, ...
Read More »NHS tiptoes around vaccination in new MullenLowe work
MullenLowe has taken a determinedly softly softly approach in its seemingly endless anti-Covid NHS campaign and it’s back with a new variant, ‘Everyone Can Help.’ Eagle-eyed observers will note that just about everyone in the TV ad ‘Let’s Keep Going’ ...
Read More »NHS lightens the Covid tone with Elton John and Michael Caine for vaccination drive
Are the Covid clouds lifting with the worldwide vaccination programme? The UK has led the way in Europe – to the ire of some of its neighbours – but one of the issues has been take-up of the vaccine with ...
Read More »MullenLowe shows hospital reality in latest Covid burst
Covid cases are going down (slowly) in the UK but there are still lots of people in hospital, many on ventilators. So the latest instalment of the NHS campaign through MullenLowe shows real patients to remind us that it ain’t ...
Read More »John Ayling of JAA Media: this crisis is terrible – but we have been here before
History has shown that the media industry is more than capable of weathering a storm, writes JAA Media’s John Ayling. As we enter a new year – and a new lockdown in the UK – Its timely to revisit a ...
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