By Archie Heaton Let’s get the obvious out of the way first – Coronavirus is bad. In fact, as someone whose brother has a supressed immune system and severe asthma, I’m all too aware of how bad. But, regardless of ...
Read More »It’s a Covid-19 Mother’s Day but at least Billy Bragg hits the right note
Mother’s Day is said to have been invented by Hallmark Cards in 1920 but this manufactured event has taken on a more significant meaning, in the UK at least, with the Covid-19 virus wreaking its havoc. PM Boris Johnson, who ...
Read More »Bill Gates got there first with Covid-19
You can only take so much Covid-19, life has to go on somehow after all. But one thing it’s safe to say is that the world wasn’t prepared. We’ve noted that big businesses were not, happily spending nearly everything they ...
Read More »Agencies will take a massive hit from Covid-19 – what will the future look like?
One senior agency exec currently working from home (and doubtless finding there isn’t that much to do without meetings) says he thinks the hit to agencies from Covid-19 will be “unprecedented.” We don’t know yet what the hit to adspend ...
Read More »Covid-19 set to blitz global adspend – but over-reliance on big events is self-inflicted
It’s pretty clear that the world economy will slide into recession this year (some definitions of recession are less than two per cent growth, in the UK it’s two quarters of negative growth) and the hitherto booming global ad market ...
Read More »Time for Johnson’s UK government to cut the PR games and level with people over Covid-19
Sometimes it’s better just to give people the news straight. Here’s Ministry of Defence Spokesman Ian McDonald in 1982 on the Falklands War, and the many reverses that encounter entailed. McDonald was much mocked at the time but people believed ...
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