It’s official. Facebook is bad for your marriage. We learn of this thanks to research conducted by Divorce Online. The online divorce service scanned its divorce petition database for the word ‘Facebook’ and found 989 instances of the word in some 5,000 petitions. That means that some 20% of divorce petitions cite Facebook as a [...]
Blade is delighted by the news that Marks & Spencer’s Christmas ad has been cleared of sexism. Some 100 complaints were brought about the ad but the ASA manfully dismissed them all, concluding that Philip Glenister’s sense of Christmas – “That girl prancing around in her underwear” – was “unlikely to be interpreted as a [...]
Blade has a lot of time for Simon Cowell, the media mogul who brought us the X-Factor. Evil genius he may be, but he is undeniably very, very good at what he does. He’s also got a fine line in PR, handling his appearance on Newsnight with effortless ease and revealing that he is contemplating [...]
Can it get any worse for Tiger Woods? We learn that Accenture have just dropped him, joining Gillette and Gatorade in being less than enamoured of the professional golfer’s wandering eye. What, though, is the right PR advice for him? As ever in a crisis, it pays not to put your head in the sand. [...]
The campaign for reform of the libel laws shows no sign of slowing down, but was yesterday’s piece in the Sunday Times – arguing that libel lawyers are stifling jokes – a bit rich? Mind you, the idea that gangs of evil libel lawyers are roaming the country and suing when someone makes a joke [...]
Is there a geek inside all of us?
Excellent Nike ad
Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).