Here’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg outlining nine things the social network is going to do to prevent nasties invading its space: specifically some 3,000 Russia-originated anti-Clinton election ads it’s magnanimously agreed to share with the US Congress, which is investigating election ...
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Here’s a job to tax even the most optimistic of agency bosses. Mega-sized Russian gas producer Gazprom (left) is looking for a UK agency, according to Campaign. Russia isn’t exactly flavour of the month with other countries in Europe at ...
Read More »Wieden+Kennedy rides to P&G’s rescue with winning Winter Olympics campaign
It’s the Winter Olympics in Sochi, in Russia, next month (often a recipe for disaster – remember when it didn’t snow north of Vancouver?) and this year the Games look likely to be even more fraught, with opponents of the ...
Read More »Now Giorgio Armani steps boldly into the wonderful (and fashionable) world of nappies
A new-found friend from Germany sends me a print ad and a link to the the Giorgio Armani website which offers Gio’s diapers to rich Russians who, clearly, can’t thing of other ways of spending their money. Is this daft ...
Read More »Worrying times for the marcoms giants as growth judders to a halt in Brazil and China
For years now it’s seemed like a one way bet: expand in the BRICS (the emerging markets of China, Brazil, India and Russia); go further afield to the likes of Indonesia and Vietnam and even, gulp, invest in the Middle ...
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