Tag Archives: Sir Richard Branson

You have to award the prize for barefaced cheek to the Virgin empire. It’s finally about to open its first hotel, in New York in December, after promising to open 25 way back in 2010. Two more, in Chicago and ...

This is more like it from Virgin Media and agency BBH. David Tennant, Usain Bolt and frontman Sir Richard Branson have been banished to Branson’s Necker Island (or somewhere) to be replaced by the rather winning Sofa Bear. Has new ...

For those of you who are interested – fellow sufferers probably – I thought I’d report that, after an all-day outage on Friday – Virgin Media is up to its old tricks with another one today. And this time they ...

Well maybe that’s not the plan but it’s done a good job in London today and, for all I know elsewhere (as I haven’t been able to get online it’s hard to tell). So apologies from me and Sir Richard ...

Virgin Group’s Sir Richard Branson may be getting on a bit but he still has the capacity to surprise. Now Virgin America is introducing a ‘seat-to-seat delivery’ service which passengers can use to send drinks or other goodies (plus a ...

Two million or so people seem to think like this anyway, according to YouTube’s viewer tally of ‘The First Honest Cable Company’ from ExtremelyDecentFilms. from a UK perspective all it needs is a grinning Sir Richard Branson, supposedly the customer’s ...

Here’s the good news: we’re making a big TV campaign! And the bad – we’ve got to use the client’s ‘brand ambassadors.’ And such was clearly the fate of Havas Worldwide in the UK (formerly the agency known as Euro ...

John Malone’s Liberty Global, a big US-based cable company, is planning a bid for the UK’s Virgin Media according to the Financial Times. Virgin Media, in which Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin holds just a three per cent stake (despite appearances ...

Sirs Martin Sorrell and Richard Branson and sundry other business luminaries have written to the Financial Times blasting tbe UK PM’s plans to hold a referendum on Britain’s EU membership. This is scheduled after the next General Election, which David ...