Dell founder Michael Dell has turfed out chief marketing officer Mark Jarvis, the world’s top paid marketer on $15m a year, in a move that threatens the one-time world-leading computer company’s in-house agency deal with advertising giant WPP.
Jarvis and another …
An ad by New York agency Taxi for the One Laptop Per Child charity, which provides cheap computers for children in the third world, has provoked a rather predictable storm by using John Lennon’s image and voice.
Permission was given by …
Community sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and the mighty YouTube have been a kind of free lunch for everyone for the past few years.
Although they haven’t made any real money so far the assumption has always been that their vast …
Former weathergirl, and one-time lover of football manager Sven-Goran Ericksson, Ulrika Johnsson (what a lot of Scandinavian s’s) is to be paid £175,000 to appear in the forthcoming Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 4.
The increasingly desperate TV company (it’s currently carting …
Playwright Harold Pinter, who wrote the Birthday Party, The Caretaker and No Man’s Land among many others, died of cancer on Christmas Eve.
Pinter was the most eminent of the generation of playwrights and other theatrical folk spawned by the ‘angry …
Cunning confectionery firm Cadburys decide to bring back discontinued chocolate bar Wispa and sought to present this business decision as a response to some sort of bizarre mass movement.
So it set up a website fortheloveofwispa.com, induced a load of suckers …
Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, who was forced to resign when he printed some pictures of misbehaving British troops that he thought were taken in Iraq (they actually came from Lancashire) is to trouser over £1m from ITV when his …
Burger King has launched a new cologne (for real men presumably) called Flame, which features the enticing aroma of grilling meat.
The cologne is available in the company’s New York store and online and retails for a bargain $4 or so.
As …
We keep hearing about people trading down food-wise in the recession, eating at home instead of in restaurants, all those special deals with two courses each and a bottle of wine for a tenner and so on.
Now hard times have …
