The UK coalition government, which has managed to get its communications knickers in a fine old twist, is having a belated go at sorting things out with the formation of a new ‘centralised’ Government Communications Service. This, presumably, takes on ...
Read More »IPA slams government procurement e-auctions
The UK IPA Council, which consists of representatives of leading creative and media agencies, has passed an unprecedented vote of no confidence in the Government Procurement Service, which has replaced the COI as the body that selects agencies for over ...
Read More »Leo Burnett proves to the doubters (in the UK government) that it is a proper agency after all
Those masters of the nearly lost art of making 30-second commercials, Leo Burnett London, are back with us again – this time squeezing a fair proportion of the French Revolution into an ad for Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (as you ...
Read More »ISBA is trying to give agencies ‘latitude’ over client payment – so that’s a new form of daylight robbery
The issue of client payment terms for agencies rumbles on with some agencies, according to Campaign, demanding that the UK government intervene. We might politely remind these optimistic souls that governments of all hues have been loudly proclaiming their commitment ...
Read More »RKCR/Y&R celebrates BBC’s 90th, IPA rages at UK government, Droga5 debuts for Coke Zero
A rich mixture then. ***RKCR/Y&R (please call it Y&R, RKC and R have cleared off) has produced this nice film to celebrate the BBC’s 90th birthday, featuring some of its greatest hits. Oddly, there’s no Jimmy Savile. But I can’t ...
Read More »UK government’s new ad agency ‘procurement’ system is a nightmare designed by a committee
The follies of the UK’s coalition government know no bounds and now this collection of muppets – who promised a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ when it came into power in 2010 – has produced a procurement system for agencies that ...
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