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Asda offers ‘sincere apologies’ after sexist complaints and says ad ‘depicts...
Asda has told The Drum that its Christmas ad, which has received dozens of complaints for being ‘sexist’, that “it wasn’t our intention to offend anyone”. The supermarket, which often undertakes...
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TBWA closes its PR agency Staniforth
Staniforth, one of Manchester's most high-profile public relations agencies, has been closed by its parent company TBWA. The long-standing PR firm was shut down with immediate effect on Wednesday. Tom...
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LBi acquires Sceneric broadening its blended service offering
Global marketing and technology agency LBi has announced the acquisition of e-commerce consultancy and systems integrator Sceneric. The deal sees Sceneric’s e-commerce platforms added to LBi’s service...
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Ad of the Day: Marks & Spencer - Greatest Hits
If you didn't already know that Marks & Spencer were going through troubled times, you'd probably intuit it from this Christmas ad. Having eschewed the celebrity-driven approach of previous years,...
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Spoof John Lewis ad shows the snowman fetch ‘touching’ present for his partner
The John Lewis Christmas ad for 2012 was launched this morning, and now a fake ad has been unveiled, where the snowman buys his wife a present of a different nature. Taking the strapline from the...
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Smoking Gun PR runs Kennel Club's integrated PR and social media campaign for...
Kennel Club has called in consumer PR and social media agency Smoking Gun PR to run its integrated PR and social media campaign for its Discover Dogs event this weekend. The Spinningfields-based...
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Weapon7 launches Realtime Man Internet Week challenge
Digital-focused marketing agency, Weapon7, has announced an ambitious experimental project – ‘Realtime Man’ – in celebration of Internet Week 2012. ‘Realtime Man’ aims to see if one person can attend...
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Why there's money to be made in channel marketing - if you can get your head...
This week I wanted to cover an area we haven’t looked at before – channel marketing. “Channel” (as it’s often called) is one of those marketing services that’s little understood outside of the...
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Music industry social network announces nationwide tour for unsigned artists
Emerging Icons, the sister site to music industry social network Unsigned Band Review, has announced that three of the artists chosen to perform over the course of the Olympic and Paralympic Games...
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Sainsbury’s announces appointment of head of brand communications; head of...
Sainsbury’s has announced three additions to its marketing team: head of brand communications; head of insight and category manager for advertising and media. Mark Given is set to join Sainsbury's as...
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How on earth can the BBC rebuild its reputation as Lord McAlpine has courage...
Did the BBC programme Newsnight charge on with the Welsh child abuse story in an attempt to rebuild its credibility after the damaging controversy over the scrapped Jimmy Savile investigation? The...
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New report accuses Pearson of "aggressively" and "unsustainably" ramping up...
This week analysis have been predicting that the Financial Times could be sold for £1 billion, however one City analyst has claimed that Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times, has been pushing up...
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MPs “mired in scandal” are accused of hypocrisy for supporting tougher press...
MPs who signed a letter advocating legal controls on the media have been accused of hypocrisy as many of them have been subjects of newspaper exposés. It was noted by fellow MPs that those who signed...
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“We should not have put out a film that was so fundamentally wrong”: BBC’s...
In an interview with John Humphrys on Radio4’s Today programme, BBC director general George Entwistle warned that staff involved in the Newsnight report, which has subsequently been shown to have...
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“I want to offer my sincere and humble apologies”: Steve Messham admits he...
Steve Messham, the victim of sexual abuse at a care home in North Wales, has apologised for wrongly identifying Lord McAlpine, saying that that his claim was based on a case of mistaken identity....
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Will the meager £624 fine for naming rape victim on Twitter set a precedent...
This week nine people were found guilty of naming the victim involved in the Ched Evans rape case on Twitter and Facebook, as magistrates heard how the victim was accused of "crying rape" and...
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"It is a great pity a talented man had been sacrificed while time-servers...
In the wake of the announcement that George Entwistle had resigned from his position as director general over the fiasco surrounding Newsnight, the programme’s presenter Jeremy Paxman issued a...
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"What undermined Entwistle were exactly those failings which he wanted to...
Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC trust, appeared on the Andrew Marr show this morning to discuss the resignation of BBC chief George Entwistle. Patten said in the interview that while Entwistle’s...
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Media reaction to George Entwistle's exit; round-up of key comment in wake of...
Despite both Jeremy Paxman and Lord Patten unequivocally stating Entwistle was a ‘talented’ and ‘honourable’ man who found himself in a difficult position, this morning’s front pages were less than...
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Kent Police in the firing line after arresting poppy burning stunt man
Kent Police have come under fire from Twitter users after they arrested a man who posting a picture of a burning a poppy on Remembrance Sunday. The move was greeted with outrage by members of social...
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