Netflix cancelling Duchess of Sussex a ‘disaster’ for Harry and Meghan’s production company Archewell May 3, 2022 The cancellation by Netflix of an animated children’s series by the Duchess of Sussex is a big blow for Meghan and Prince Harry, a royal expert has said. Rafe Heydel-Mankoo said this morning: “That’s a complete disaster for Harry and Megan and Archewell Productions.” “Netflix is having big problems with a dip in subscriber numbers, [...]
Move over BBC: ITV moves all London staff to White City creative campus May 3, 2022 Over 800 ITV staff members will be heading to White City as the broadcaster pushes the west London haunt as its new creative hub. The broadcaster will be relocating all their London staff from their existing offices in Gray’s Inn Road and Waterhouse Square to the new site, which has traditionally been home to the [...]
Crypto mania, financial contagion and the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ May 3, 2022 From the gold fever of the 1840s and 1850s and the bicycle bubbles of the 1890s to the bowling manias of the1960s and the dot-com boom of the 1990s and early 2000s, our animal spirits are forever in search of greener pastures. In recent times, the financial herd has stampeded into the field of cryptocurrency. [...]
Bringing retail investors into the fold creates equality of opportunity from our wealth May 3, 2022 In the 1980s, one of the UK’s most high-profile flotations was the privatisation of the state-owned British Gas. The government’s “Tell Sid” 1986 advertising campaign attracted many of its 500,000-strong army of private investors. During the countdown to the British Gas shares sale, the government courted subscriptions from retail investors in every way imaginable – [...]
Business of Space: Space junk, a new Martian aurora and a boost for British tech April 29, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner offers up a roundup of the most important news across the space industry, every Friday. This week: Space junk – an escalating issue A new Martian aurora Investment in British space tech Space junk is getting out of control The soaring number of satellite constellations planned by Elon Musk’s Starlink, taxpayer backed OneWeb and raft of [...]
Leaked ASA report: Regulator to order HSBC to end greenwashing and stop misleading UK customers April 29, 2022 City A.M. understands that a preliminary, unpublished decision by the advertising regulator rules that a number of HSBC’s climate-focused ads are misleading, and that the watchdog demands that future marketing must not omit significant information about its contribution to rising emissions. The ASA’s draft recommendations, seen by this paper, focus on two of HSBC’s ads, [...]
The City A.M. awards: A spectacular night in the Square Mile April 29, 2022 Almost two and a half years since the last City A.M. gala dinner, the brightest lights in the London business community gathered in person once again to toast the Square Mile’s success in what was an extraordinary year. Held for the first time in the Guildhall, the awards recognise those who made the City great [...]
How TikTok saved the bookstar: Will the UK stay in love with reading after lockdown? April 29, 2022 A decade ago, the narrative of bookselling was of the surging popularity of digital book sales, with physical editions left on the shelf. Figures from the Publishers’ Association in 2012 saw digital book sales shoot up 54 per cent while physical book sales dipped five per cent. Fast forward to 2021 and UK publishing sales [...]
Piers Morgan’s TalkTV outshines GB News with 300k viewers for Uncensored April 28, 2022 Piers Morgan’s TalkTV show Uncensored show averaged 300,000 viewers in the UK, knocking BBC News, Sky News and GB News out of the park for prime time TV
Putin warns ‘retaliatory strikes will be lightning-fast’ if West intervenes in Ukraine April 28, 2022 Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned the Kremlin’s “retaliatory strikes will be lightning-fast” if the United States or a Nato country intervenes in the Ukraine war. In a television address, he responded to President Joe Biden committing to more military aid to Kyiv continuing to ramp up sanctions on Moscow with European allies. This comes [...]