Is it just us or is UK advertising going all a bit Allen Brady & Marsh? For those of you who weren’t taking an interest in these matters in the 1970s and’80s, ABM was a briefly successful agency set up ...
Read More »Inferno walks a tricky line in new NSPCC ‘Underwear Rule’ child protection campaign
This is a tricky brief: the NSPCC reckons there’s a need post-Jimmy Savile to educate parents on how to talk to/instruct their children that ‘privates are private.’ And, presumably, avoid dodgy-looking B-List celebs working for the BBC. The BBC’s John ...
Read More »Can Droga5 hack it across the world? Is McCann on an upswing and time for BBC types to ‘fess up
The big story of the past two weeks has been uber-successful New York (and Sydney and Auckland) agency Droga5’s decision to venture into further territories; initially London. But do such micro-networks really have a chance of succeeding? BBH tried it ...
Read More »Where are we as we go into the (pre-Christmas) weekend? PG/IPG, Sorrell, Wieden and Murdoch
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its ...
Read More »Are two Lords better than one? Lord (Tony) Hall quits the opera to join Lord Patten at the Beeb
Admittedly Lord Hall – one-time BBC head of news Tony Hall – isn’t quite as grand as former Tory minister and last governor of Hong Kong Lord (Chris) Patten but it’s a sign that egalitarianism in the UK never quite ...
Read More »Is the post-Jimmy Savile search for BBC gropers turning into a witch hunt?
It comes as no surprise that former Radio One DJ Dave Lee Travis (left), the self-styled ‘hairy monster,’ has been questioned by Inspector Plod as part of his inquiries into sexual shenanigans at the BBC in the wake of the ...
Read More »Is former Pepsi man Tim Davie the right man to lead meltdown BBC? If they split the job he might be
BBC director-general George Entwistle has resigned following a staggeringly poor showing on the BBC’s own Today programme yesterday morning and former Pepsico marketing boss Tim Davie (pictured) has taken over as interim director general. Davie must regard this as a ...
Read More »Who’ll take the fall for BBC’s Jimmy Savile ‘cover up’ – Entwistle, Boaden or Newsnight’s Rippon?
There’s nothing quite like the BBC when it goes into one of its periodic bouts of self-analysis and we had another blast this morning on the Today programme about its treatment of the Jimmy Savile affair. The BBC’s Panorama is ...
Read More »Lance Armstrong and Jimmy Savile – celebrities who make fools of us all (and sponsors)
For years he wove a cynical circle of deceit around the community, perpetrating the most heinous misdeeds while masquerading as a benefactor of mankind. Of course, there were a few whispers. Doubters who thought the myth he had wrapped around ...
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