Edinburgh-based consumer branding agency Threebrand has launched a new PR division.The new venture, follows the appointment of ex-Chime and Good Relations PR account director, Emma Park.Park joins after over five years in London working on a... Read more
As part of the Homecoming Scotland 2009 celebrations which will celebrate the work of poet Robert Burns, the Scottish Parliament will host a number of events. During January the company has worked along with RR Donnelly to create a Marque of Burns... Read more
The debate surrounding the British Humanist Association (BHA) advertising campaign (above), which broke earlier this month on London buses, claiming that “there’s probably no God”, continues to run and run – or rather, in... Read more
Stephen Lepitak’s round up of the week. Read more
A new book of photography has been created Liverpool design agency Smiling Wolf alongside photographer Dan Kenyon as a study of everyday people in Liverpool. Liverpool Sung & Unsung has been self published by Smiling Wolf with an initial run... Read more
Last year Brian Child, the man who built McCann Erickson Manchester into the biggest marketing agency outside London, put forward in The Drum seven observations on how agencies should deal with the recession The Drum caught up with Brian recently... Read more
Brighton based design agency Crush has designed a campaign for Fenchruch’s Autumn/Winter collection which with the brief of presenting the brand’s London heritage. The agency art directed and designed the campaign for a brand book and... Read more
Dear Uncle Carl,I haven’t had a wage rise for well over a year. But now, especially, I am not sure if it is even appropriate to ask, with staff being made redundant and leavers not being replaced. With the cost of living increasing so much,... Read more
Robert Harwood-Matthews has been the chief executive of TBWA\Manchester for the last two years. For the last two weeks, he says he has “felt like George W Bush” handing over that role as his successor, Fergus McCallum, takes charge.Now... Read more
Golley Slater's Group CEO – Chris Lovell with a roundup of the week.The “power to the people social media tracker – wave 3” research reported that there are now 184m blogs worldwide, but within the research you find there... Read more
Another lesser-known fact is that the South West’s media and creative marketing industry continues to grow at an exponential rate, as support for the sector gathers momentum.One thing that is, however, very apparent – even to the... Read more
Sitting in Propaganda’s boardroom, with a wall totally smothered in creative and strategic awards behind him, Julian Kynaston, the man who founded the agency around 14 years ago, is in typically bullish mood. The Drum has dropped in to the... Read more
Just a few days after announcing new members of staff joining the company’s PR division, Fifth Ring has announced that it has made three of its digital media and marketing and its production departments redundant. The Aberdeen agency is... Read more
This issue we tasked David Reid of becausebrandsmatter.com with reviewing some of the most recent offerings in the world of advertising. His views are below. Agree? Disagree? Think you could do better? Have your say at the bottom of the page... Read more
But, because The Chip Shop Awards are all about raw creativity, the judges could be in for some fun – as the competition has no rules. This means you can enter work that ran; work that didn’t; work that never got approved by the client... Read more
Midlands-based Severn Communications has completed the re-branding of Thresher Group to First Quench Retailing (FQR).The agency was selected to develop the new brand identity having worked with the drinks retailer across a range of projects for... Read more
Following a six way pitch, Beamish Museum has appointed Cravens with it first being tasked to re-design the museum’s visitor, groups and schools leaflets, and bring the centre to life as a ‘living museum’. The project will be the... Read more
Stand has designed Maclay Murray & Spens Business Review for the third year running. The solicitor’s new annual report again features photography of MMS staff but is now in full colour, a new direction for the company and the Very Smart... Read more
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