Post Brexit vote, your business still needs to be prepared for the EU General Data Protection Regulation July 11, 2016 High-profile data breaches are becoming increasingly routine. Media coverage of events like the massive TalkTalk hacking scandal have opened the public’s eyes to the insecurity of their private data in the hands of enterprises, though they aren’t the only ones who have taken notice. Regulators across Europe have taken it upon themselves to ensure these [...]
JWT Europe boss: After Brexit, what now for Britain’s brands and “Brand Britain”? July 11, 2016 What does Brexit mean for British brands and “Brand Britain”? The Friday after the referendum, we conducted a field survey of 1,000 people to gauge public attitudes, and try to get a clearer idea of how consumers expect British brands to behave in the wake of the EU vote. Here are some of our findings. [...]
Production company behind BBC’s “steamy” Versailles plans UK expansion July 10, 2016 If you were you among those outraged by the BBC Two series Versailles – described by one Mail Online report as “the steamiest series on television” – you might want to stop reading. Newen, the French production company behind the series, is in talks with the BBC, ITV and Netflix over programming – and is [...]
Ofcom: Sky garners few complaints across broadband, TV, mobile and telephone, but BT, EE, Plusnet fare badly July 8, 2016 Things aren't getting much better. The total number of complaints made to Ofcom in between the last three months of 2015 and the first three months of 2016 was stable – though, to be fair, there was a slight decline in pay-monthly mobile complaints. Sky consistently got less complaints than the industry average, while Virgin [...]
Clinton is off the hook over her private email. Are we right to question the role of her political celebrity? July 8, 2016 The results are in, and people are outraged. And I’m not talking about Brexit. Across the pond, a far less transparent phenomenon has occurred. After many months of anticipation, the FBI has finally recommended against charging Hillary Clinton for using a private server to host her correspondence while she was secretary of state. In legal [...]
Jose Mourinho straight onto the front foot in first media appearance as Manchester United manager July 5, 2016 Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has wasted little time in going on the offensive in his new job, taking apparent swipes at the records of old foe Arsene Wenger and predecessor Louis van Gaal, and deriding as “a lie” his reputation as a coach who does not promote young players. In a prickly first media [...]
Audi S5 Quattro review: Efforts to improve on this masterpiece deserve our respect but not our necessarily our love July 4, 2016 How do you improve upon a masterpiece? Would Van Gogh’s sunflowers look better if they were brightened up in Photoshop? Perhaps Exile on Main Street needs some AutoTune tweakery to smooth out Mick Jagger’s trademark drawl? Such was the task facing Audi in replacing the A5, the car that designer Walter de Silva called his [...]
Making tech human: The Memo’s Alex Wood on why there’s more value in a smaller audience July 4, 2016 "Apple announcements aren’t exciting anymore,” says Alex Wood, the journalist and entrepreneur behind tech website The Memo. Not only is the tech titan failing to launch products and software which are more eye-catching than those which preceded them, Wood thinks that consumers are tired of technology being presented to them as an endless chronicling of operating [...]
Brands and ad agencies need to pay more attention to the way their talent perceives them July 4, 2016 Between the glasses of rose and glimpses of Will Smith, advertising agencies and brands at Cannes this year were discussing the benefits of building meaningful, purposeful brands to engage with their customers. In one of our sessions during the International Festival of Creativity, marketers were discussing how brands and media agencies are coming up short [...]
Sparks fly as Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg clash at Austrian Grand Prix July 3, 2016 World champion Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg’s rivalry spilled over after the pair collided in a dramatic Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday. Both drivers accused the other of causing the final-lap crash in which Hamilton decisively took the lead and Rosberg suffered damage to his front wing, condemning him to fourth place. Victory [...]