Tag Archives: David Bowie

Every now and then you think: I wish I’d been there. I wish I’d been at the 2008 Grammys when Prince appeared live with Beyonce. Prince died today aged 57. In some respects he was, indeed, the ‘purple pain,’ but ...

David Bowie, whose death from cancer at 69 was announced today, made surprisingly little impact on advertising as a performer although his music appears in countless ads. But, as a genuine musical great, maybe he didn’t need to. If he’d ...

Money is a nice thing to have of course and French luxury brand Louis Vuitton has buckets of it (the one-time luggage maker’s ‘brand’ alone is valued at about $26bn). So it’s splashing the cash on this opus (running on ...

What do you you say about (yet) another smartphone? Sony and McCann London have decided to tell us all about Sony too via a quick history of its products from tellys via the Walkman and PlayStation to the new Xperia ...

David Bowie’s new single Where Are We Now, the prequel to an album apparently, is certainly polarising. Some people thinks it’s the greatest, others that he’s just talking his way through it (Bowie is 66, Leonard Cohen gets away with ...

Forget Max Clifford, The Outside Organisation’s Alan Edwards is the doyen of the populist PR world. Edwards began his career in the music business (like Clifford), acting for the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and David Bowie before broadening Outside’s ...

Nearly all Google’s stupendous profits still come from search and its Adwords programme but the company also seems serious about its latest big venture, Facebook rival Google+. As Facebook prepares to celebrate its display advertising take heading through $4bn by ...

MDC’s flagship New Yrok shop Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners has won BMW’s $160m account, beating competition from Martin, Gotham, Toronto’s Cundari and Grey (which only pitched for the dealer account). KBS&P has been minding the account since BMW split ...