BBC’s The Apprentice is back. What can the show teach us? Don’t be a jerk The Apprentice returns today for its fourteenth series, along with Lord Sugar and his pointy finger of boardroom doom. Why do we still love it so much? Well, there’s the stirring Prokofiev Dance of the Knights music, aerial shots of London looking glorious, some hysterical tasks, Karren Brady looking cross, Claude Littner looking exasperated, and [...]
Agencies need to clean up their acts: Indiscriminate use of programmatic trading is crushing trust in advertising Reports showing that advertisers have been unwittingly funding illegal terror groups through an indiscriminate distribution of their online ads confirms something that many already suspected. The relationship between advertisers, agents and online publishers is in urgent need of a re-boot, where transparency and full disclosure make the kind of worrying aberrations reported in The Times [...]