They keep doing it, don’t they? Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorious is on trial for shooting his girlfriend and Nike, whose stable of sports stars seem defined (in part) by their ability to get into trouble, runs this ad. In a ...
Read More »The times are against agency start-ups but here’s how you win: first find a brave client..
Talking to people in the advertising world, there seems to be a feeling that start-ups face a far greater uphill struggle now than in the past. There is a conspiracy of factors that make the jump to independence a bigger ...
Read More »What the world’s Twitterati made of cheatin’ Lance Armstrong’s Oprah Whinfrey confession
Been wondering what, if anything, to say about shamed former US cycling champ Lance Armstrong: only an idiot (such as the odd libel juror) would have assumed he wasn’t taking drugs or worse given the period in which he won ...
Read More »Nike quick to extract a cup full of value from new $125m golf star Rory McIlroy
Golfers often seem to have the charisma of herrings but Nike and Wieden+Kennedy seem to have extracted the max from this new film ‘In the Cup,’ designed to plug Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy’s new status in Nike’s trophy cabinet ...
Read More »Ambitious AKQA expands into Japan
AKQA is opening its 11th office, in Tokyo, hard on the heels of its tenth, in key client Nike’s home base of Portland. AKQA has opened four new offices so far this year. The digital agency, which was bought by ...
Read More »Nike lines up £1bn kit deal with Manchester United and hated owners the Glazers
Goodness knows what Manchester United fans make of it: the US Glazer family, who bought the club with its own money and lumbered it with £600m of debt, are beginning to see the fruits of their labours, if such they ...
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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