Tag Archives: covid-19

Groundbreaking analysis from Ada, Talon Outdoor’s proprietary intelligent data management platform has uncovered that the first two weeks in March had above average movement for the UK population before dramatically declining in the third week by -21% nationally, with London ...

WPP media agency Mindshare UK, along with many others, has been looking into attitudes in the light of the Covid-19 crisis, finding, which won’t surprise anyone, high levels of concern and anxiety across all age groups and households but tracking ...

Virgin Media is presumably having a pretty good Covid-19 war as we stay home and talk to friends and family (and children who take to it like a duck to water) on various devices. This new topical ad has the ...

April is the cruellest month famously opined TS Eliot (can’t help recalling a celebrated Private Eye spoof with January, February and March crossed out by Ezra Pound – try April, he wrote.) But it’s no laughing matter for UK adland ...

WPP CEO Mark Read has had a pretty good war so far and now he’s responded to the Covid-19 virus and consequent dramatic slowdown by scrapping its share buyback plan (saving £650m) and suspending its final 2019 dividend to save ...

Agencies all over the place are trying to do their bit against the dreaded virus and, sorry, we don’t have space to cover them all. Here’s an interesting effort from Anatomised in London, telling it like it is. From Mike ...

The BBC’s doing its bit of help us through the crisis with four vintage clips advising us to stay at home. Politely in the case of Miranda. Less so with Alastair Campbell, sorry Peter Capaldi’s Malcolm Tucker from The Thick ...

In times of crisis as we are seeing with the Covid-19 pandemic, brands are wondering how to best invest their marketing efforts and which decisions will positively or negatively affect their business and reputations. Some things go without saying, like ...

Are agencies doing their bit in the Covid-19 crisis? WPP CEO Mark Read (below) thinks they are. Writing this week he said: “At WPP, we are working with international health authorities to promote effective handwashing, and we have offered our ...