It wasn’t that long ago that the Tory government took an axe to ad spending, scrapping the old Central Office of Information and moving it to the Cabinet Office (a mysterious entity that seems to be a sort of Whitehall ...
Read More »Dorries’ elevation to Culture and Sport may be bad news for Channel 4 and the BBC
In theory the UK’s secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (quite a bagful if you think about it) should play a big role in the fortunes of the ad and media industry. But there’ve been ten of ...
Read More »Do we really need another hectoring from the Government – this time on middle class drug use?
Headlines are funny things. Campaign has one today: Government looks to adland to reduce cocaine use. Now we know that adland has some enthusiastic snorters but surely Boris and co. have more pressing issues on their mind than this? What ...
Read More »Now MSQ Partners wins UK government housing brief
The UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has appointed MSQ Partners to handle its marketing activity following a pitch among government roster agencies. MSQ’s task involves publicising MHCLG initiatives in the fields of affordable housing and regional ...
Read More »Government promises “transparent” media review as big groups pitch for £140m
The UK government is reviewing its £140m or so media account after four years with Dentsu Aegis’ Carat. And the statutory review has Alex Aiken (below), director of communications at the Cabinet Office (which replaced the old COI as client ...
Read More »Why are the UK’s men from the ministry incapable of writing an agency brief?
Once upon a time there was the COI (formerly Central Office of Information) that handled UK government advertising and marketing. In its last knockings it was run by Mark Lund, now head of McCann group in the UK. The COI ...
Read More »M&C wins government’s Neighbourhood Planning brief
New business is being showered around like confetti in the UK this week (Leagas Delaney has won Value Retail, BBH Uber, 101 Dunelm, Karmarama Confused.com) and now M&C Saatchi has been appointed to handle the UK government’s Department for Communities ...
Read More »AMV launches government THINK! drug drive campaign
The law in the UK regarding drugs and driving changed today (March 2) to bring it into line with drink driving (ie don’t or else). So AMV BBDO has produced a new campaign THINK! Drug Drive Paranoia (it’s not really ...
Read More »UK Gov, Carat and WPP’s M4C – news from the front
Loyal readers will know that the UK government has switched its media buying account from WPP’s bespoke agency M4C (left) to Aegis Dentsu. The business is estimated at £140m although the Government spends far more than this on communications (about ...
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