Category: Advertising

BBC reviews £20m ad account - does it need one?

It’s a bit unsporting to ask this question I know - the BBC’s ad account being among the most sought-after in the business - but the corporation gains no revenue from attracting extra viewers so why does it need to …

Techno rebel Hales to launch new website

Online publisher and leading tech ad network Net Communities has signed up Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest computer maker, to sponsor its new tech news website THINQ.co.uk.

THINQ.co.uk launches on January 4 and will be edited by Paul Hales, former editor of …

Poster moves point to March election

The odds are shortening on a March general election with Mike Smithson’s excellent blog Political Betting reporting that the Central Office of information, which handles government marketing expenditure, is pulling all its posters due to run after the end of February.

In …

Gillette owner P&G sacks Tiger Woods

Gillette owner Procter & Gamble has dumped under-fire golfer Tiger Woods from its multi-million dollar Gillette campaign, in which he features with the almost equally wooden Thierry Henry and Roger Federer.

This gives the boys in Cincinnati and agency BBDO in …

OMG there’s a Tiger Woods sextape!

Or maybe not. But it’s quite funny anyway.

Oh to be one of Tiger’s lawyers or PR men or agents or whatever. They’ll be putting in seven figure invoices already although Tiger is, as they say in his trade, in the …

Ad Age crew flee, babe Klaassen takes over

British duo Jonah Bloom and Matt Creamer have quit US trade mag Advertising Age for a newish website company called Breaking Media. Bloom, who used to be editor of PR Week, and Creamer were, respectively, editor-in-chief and senior editor (do American …

Sally Bercow - a fine testament to adverts?

Sally is the current Parliamentary Speaker John Bercow’s wife and she’s been owning up to a chequered past that includes drinking too much (a bottle at lunch and a bottle and a bit in the evening) and sometimes ending up …

Tiger Woods suffers from the ‘Curse of the Gillette Three’

I have Giles Smith in The Times to thank for this one, but he’s right isn’t he?

Those three immaculate young men in the horrible Gillette campaign (or complete tossers if you prefer) have been annoying us for years.

Now Thierry Henry …

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