Tag Archives: covid-19

Barclaycard has been totting up the winners and losers in UK consumer spending through 2020 – overall it’s down 7.1% on 2019 – with some interesting beneficiaries. But the bad news first (it’s 2020 after all) Restaurants were down 47% ...

Procter & Gamble has revealed its determination to ‘Lead with Love’ in 2021, 2,021 “acts of good” throughout the year for Covid-related causes. The campaign is spearheaded by a film proposing love as one of eight emotions displayed by babies. ...

Carat UK CEO Jo Sutherland is reportedly “stepping down” as CEO – announced in a memo – and she won’t be the only person seeking new pastures as we venture into this strangest of holiday seasons. The turn of the ...

French supermarket chain Intermarché is good at putting itself on the right side of the argument – sustainability, selling less-than-perfect-looking vegetable etc – and this Christmas it’s tackling the big one – Covid 19 – with agency Romance. A short ...

To receive good news in 2020 is something to be celebrated. Even if it is a small step, it’s a short shot to counteract the ongoing face-grinding misery parade that has accompanied us through this year. But we have that ...

Who’d be a forecaster these days – unless you’re an epidemiologist who at least gets to frighten us all on the radio. The latest AA/WARC forecast for UK adspend has been revised down and now says that full recovery from ...

For many years the subject of responsibility in advertising and its impact on the economy, politics and society has been much debated. It has regularly been a prominent subject in the media, with issues ranging from Brexit to obesity. Societal ...

CEOs like to depart the stage on a high note and Michael Roth at Interpublic (IPG), who’s stepping down to be replaced by COO Philippe Krakwsky (both below), is doing a pretty good job during Covid-19 it seems. It wasn’t ...

If anything is defining the impact of Covid it is uncertainty. Not knowing how the pandemic will develop in terms of further restrictions and economic impact nationally and locally, is making brand media planning infinitely more difficult and the advertising ...