Omnicom’s Manning Gottlieb OMD is expected to retain the UK government’s media account – via a team dubbed OmniGov, not the happiest moniker with the current Covid mutant running rampant – in a four year deal. Government ad expenditure has ...
Read More »Talon’s Lucy Baumgartner: IPA EffWorks Global, COVID-19 and Out of Home
A recap of IPA Effworks Global 2021 from Talon newcomer Lucy Baumgartner With the promise of the best new thinking and evidence-based decision-making research for marketing effectiveness in the world, IPA EffWorks Global 2021 hit the ground running last Tuesday ...
Read More »World Media Group highlights trust in an untrustworthy digital news landscape
“Imagine a world without trusted media,” says the World Media Group, which represents some of the planet’s more famous legacy media owners. Thought we were living in one but that’s their point: partisan influencers, subjective bloggers and politically funded websites ...
Read More »MullenLowe reapointed to UK government anti-Covid drive
MullenLowe has been reappointed to the UK government’s Covid-19 advertising drive, to no-one’s great surprise as the agency acquitted itself well through the pandemic. The agency, which has earned an estimated £20m to date (media expenditure runs into hundreds of ...
Read More »MullenLowe’s back for UK government Covid campaign – will they ever go away?
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, ...
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