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The Qatar World Cup is almost upon us – another disaster waiting to happen surely – and official beer Budweiser is out of the blocks with Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr and Raheem Sterling entering the arena via the tunnel. All ...

The increasingly controversial FIFA World Cup in November is hoving into view and Coca-Cola, a main sponsor since 1978, is kicking off its marketing effort with ‘Believing is magic,’ a spin on its ‘Real Magic’ platform. With, presumably, marketing partner ...

UK bank TSB has shortlisted Havas Media, Initiative Media, Blue449, the7stars and Goodstuff – an interesting mix of network and independent agencies – for its media account formerly held by Dentsu Aegis-owned Vizeum. TSB marketing director Pete Markey says the ...

Cricket finds itself in the spotlight in the UK after England’s (somewhat fortuitous) World Cup win, enjoying a higher profile than at any time since 2005 when England beat Australia in an epic series. One of the stars of that ...

We now have video assistant referees in big football games and, inevitably perhaps, now the ever-rapacious football authorities are planning to run ads – or maybe just branding – on them as we wait for the VAR to decide. Apparently ...

Our sweltering summer of sport, reality TV and royal weddings has been a reminder of the power of television to reach mass audiences, and the fact that TV’s widely-predicted demise may have been greatly exaggerated. For England’s semi-final match against ...

The recent World Cup was, by most people’s estimates, a success and that was certainly the case for the brands scoring highly in digital agency DMS’ round-up here. Adidas will be pleased that it saw off Nike – just – ...

Nike and Adidas are duelling to ‘own’ soccer (Adidas is an official World Cup sponsor, not that it bothers Nike) and now Nike is taking us to the 2033 draw for the 2034 World Cup with China as the team ...

There seem to be two main narratives in the UK at the moment: football almost “coming home” (the World Cup went to France of course and, anyway, it’s the Jules Rimet trophy and England didn’t even enter until 1950 – ...