Sir Martin Sorrell (below) seems to have made a new brigade of enemies by branding PR as, inter alia, defined by “press releases,” (fair enough), “gin-soaked lunches” (didn’t have too many of those pre-lockdown) and “analogue” (has this man no ...
Read More »Where the money goes in marcoms companies – Irish PR company pays owner Omnicom €1.5m
Irish PR company Drury Porter Novelli paid owner Omnicom a handsome dividend of €1.5m last year, even though umbrella company Drury Communications posted a €1.1m loss – due to €1.5m in ‘exceptional items’ – according to a report in the ...
Read More »Is PR these days just about lying for the highest bidder? Here’s Israel’s Mark Regev talking to Fox News…
Mark Regev, the spokesman the Israel government wheels out when things get really hot, has been on the airwaves recently as various bodies, including the United Nations, despair of Israel’s ruthless assault on the Palestinians in Gaza. Here he is ...
Read More »China’s BlueFocus takes another big step on world stage with We Are Social social media agency buy
There’s a new kid on the block in the global marcoms stakes and it’s China’s BlueFocus, capitalised in China at $3.7bn. Now the PR and digital company has bought a majority stake (82.8 per cent) in the UK’s We Are ...
Read More »Paul Simons: Ed Miliband/ Mail row shows why PR can be a loose cannon – with ads you get what you pay for
With the Ed Miliband/Daily Mail saga running in to its third week it poses a very interesting question about being careful what you wish for. The delicate balance between the interests of politicians and the media has become a road ...
Read More »Why Aberdeen Asset Management is the Intel of global financial services
What’s the biggest, most successful, company you’ve never heard of? Impossible to say, of course. But a good candidate would be Aberdeen Asset Management. It’s in the FTSE100; it’s genuinely global. And it’s very profitable indeed, judging from its latest ...
Read More »UK is the brightest spot in WPP results as advertising and media buying thrive, PR stutters
He’s a veritable babbling (or burbling) brook that Martin Sorrell. This morning he was on the airwaves again; promoting (or defending) WPP’s first quarter results and referring inter-alia to a world economy with a ‘corrugated’ bottom, bumps here and there ...
Read More »The Chinese arrive in UK marcoms land as Blue Focus buys a fifth of quoted PR outfit Huntsworth
First up Huntsworth boss Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) says he wanted to buy leading Chinese PR firm Blue Focus. But now BF, led by Oscar Zhao (left), has, in effect, turned the tables by buying 19.8 per cent ...
Read More »IPA’s UK Bellwether Survey: the good news is that things aren’t quite as bad as they were
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. ...
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