Tag Archives: ipa

Pitching for new business (or, indeed, old business in a repitch) has always been a contentious area and the UK’s IPA agency trade body has just produced its first survey of such matters – finding that a fifth of agencies ...

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 ...

The IPA’s ever efficient press office sent me a note yesterday advising me to look out for the latest edition of its Bellwether Report, due to be unveiled on Thursday. Forewarned is forearmed they say; and I shall dutifully write ...

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 ...

Whoever said advertising was a young person’s business? The conventional wisdom is that at 40, most ad executives would be advised to investigate a second career. And at 50, they’ll be positively clapped out and have “post-economic” freedom foisted upon ...

Ed Balls cals it ‘flatlining,’ others say the UK economy is bumping along the bottom – and clearly advertising is not immune from this stasis. That’s the message from the IPA’s latest quarterly Bellwether survey of the UK industry anyway. ...

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 ...

UK ad agencies and trade body the IPA are appealing against the Government Cabinet Office’s recent shortlist to pitch for nearly £300m of government ad business. The Government Procurement Service’s application procedure (to get on the shortlist) was apparently based ...

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 ...