Everybody knows that the internet, most notably YouTube, loves kittens and biscuit maker McVitie’s, courtesy of agency Grey London, is taking the obsession with young, mostly furry, animals several stages further in its current campaign. Here’s the latest, for Christmas, ...
Read More »Trevor Beattie tops the pops in Sunday Times ad influencers list – but where’s John Hegarty?
In yesterday’s Sunday Times there was a pull-out section in association with Debrett’s. It listed Britain’s 500 most influential people and one of the categories listed was advertising. The introduction said “Debrett’s…. has carried out exhaustive research among the most ...
Read More »Restaurant critic, film director and occasional adman Michael Winner dies at 77
Michael Winner, who was a much better restaurant critic than he was a film director, has died aged 77. Winner, who made a fortune from his Death Wish movies starring Charles Bronson, wrote the ‘Winner’s Dinners’ column in the Sunday ...
Read More »Rupert Murdoch wants to merge The Times and the Sunday Times – but the indie directors won’t let him
Blimey, ‘independent directors’ standing up to Rupert Murdoch. These bods (not the same ones presumably) were first appointed in 1981 when Margaret Thatcher allowed owner of the Sun Rupert Murdoch to buy The Times and the Sunday Times. When, shortly ...
Read More »Murdoch’s newspaper cultural revolution speeds up – now Times editor Harding is chucked overboard
81-year old Rupert Murdoch is ringing the changes in his newspaper empire as he prepares to spin it off as a separate company next spring. News International boss in the UK Tom Mockridge has already gone after losing out to ...
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