The unexpected highlight of last month at Cannes for me was Vivienne Westwood.  I was reviewing the winning work from Monday night on Tuesday morning to prepare for a curation of the best bits when I realised that WW was in the house courtesy of Sapient Nitro. She brought the house down.  Partly due to…

What were Disney T-shirts manufacturers thinking when they produced girls Avengers Assemble T-shirts with the logo “I need a hero” and boys T’s with the logo “Be a hero”? Did they reference the 4000 years of patriarchy ways of working handbook ?  And what was John Inverdale thinking with his comments about Marion Bartoli ? …

This is BBC Digital Director Ralph Rivera’s view of the next stage of broadcast.  He says that internet native companies like Amazon and Facebook deal with people as individuals, not as a broad “audience” and that most TV programme makers don’t.  This would represent a change.  Think of the different creative process that goes into…

  A few weeks ago I entered the hallowed premises of the Groucho club courtesy of IPC Media’s Lisa Batty.  Lisa runs a book club and she’d invited me, and top creative Dave Dye to talk about our books.  (Mine, Tell the Truth, was published last year. Dye’s on truth in advertising is due later…