Tag Archives: covid-19

Everybody expected the economic data in Covid-19 to be bad but it’s still a shock when you discover quite how bad. The Uk’s OFfice of National Statistics (ONS) says UK gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 19.1% in the three ...

It’s a funny old world when the politicos are sustaining advertising. Of all the communications we’ve seen on either side of the Atlantic (and there are other places besides, obviously) the Lincoln Project’s howitzers aimed at Donald Trump are the ...

Wieden+Kennedy London is making redundancies in the wake of Covid-19 and also the sudden loss of its high-spending Three account. At the same time (and unrelated it’s said) London ECD Iain Tait is leaving as is CSO Ben Armistead. Long-serving ...

Covid-19 has driven down new business globally in 2020 with global marketing consultancy R3 Worldwide estimating creative and media moves are down 37 per cent in the first five months of the year. Creative is down ten per cent, media ...

The UK’s Daily Mirror newspaper has survived a lot of things – even the noxious Robert Maxwell (whose shade still haunts us via the unlikely route of Buckingham Palace resident Prince Andrew and his pal Ghislaine) – but Covid-19 is ...

How many more ‘happy lockdown’ ads (many majoring on food) will we see? Depends where you are; in the US, which seems to have ever more Covid outbreaks, we might be seeing them for a while yet. Interesting that Coca-Cola, ...

Looks like Hancock’s Half Hour, the once-daily media briefings on Covid-19, usually hosted by health secretary Matt Hancock, are about to make a comeback – although not about the virus we hope. The Government is reportedly planning to introduce “White ...

Changeis something we’ve seen an awful lot of these past months. Unprecedented change that has been unsettling for all of us – as individuals and as professionals. But however unsettling, such times can also be an eye-opening learning opportunity and ...

Ogilvy is, or was, the biggest agency in WPP’s creative line-up and for WPP CEO Mark Read to achieve his promised “creative transformation” needs to be firing on all cylinders. Its new global CEO to replace long-serving John Seifert (41 ...