Adweek’s Agency Spy has been digging through the New York Times revelations about Donald Trump’s income and tax affairs (his accountants seem to have got there before Apple, Google and Facebook) and discovered he’s made quite a lot from appearing ...
Read More »Wolff moves on from Adweek editor to White House scourge
Michael Wolff, author of the new Fire and Fury dissection of Donald Trump, had a one-year stint as editor of Adweek in the US in 2010. Unsurprisingly he proved too much of a rich mixture for the trade title’s owners. ...
Read More »Who’s the power behind toy sensation Trumpy Bear?
“The chief business of the American people is business” said one US president, ushering in the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression. Now there’s a real American businessman in the White House (we’re being polite here) and he or ...
Read More »Bjorn Borg ad enters Mexico wall controversy
What would we do without Donald Trump? They haven’t built his wall between the US and Mexico yet – they probably never will – but border security appears to have been tightened somewhat alarmingly which has prompted Bjorn Borg (remember ...
Read More »Cadillac cries crocodile tears over Trump at the Oscars
Cadillac has a different spin on its Dare Greatly campaign in Sunday night’s Oscars, ‘Carry” from Publicis, a new ad purporting to show that Americans aren’t all nasty and divisive (that’s you Donald). Rather they carry themselves forward. Cadillac says ...
Read More »What really happens at Trump HQ
Won’t be able to make it to Davos this year (but give my regards to Gretel). You can bet that everyone there will be fretting about Trump and Putin in that order, including our own dear Sir Martin Sorrell of ...
Read More »Alex Van Gestel of Verbalisation: what Trump tells us about the death of attitudinal research
One of the reasons Donald Trump’s win was so shocking is that the pollsters completely failed to predict he’d end up in the White House. A bit like they did for Brexit and Cameron’s re-election before it. It’s an important ...
Read More »Trump trumps the pollsters and the big business establishment
If you though Brexit was bad, what about a Trump presidency? Trump may be the ultimate political maverick but then so, in their different ways, were Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage in the Brexit campaign. What else do ...
Read More »The Donald’s new logo suggests a hot time for Pence
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has named Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate – and unveiled a spanking new logo. Let’s hope Pence doesn’t get shafted in the same way as countless Trump associates and customers over the ...
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