On Sunday 25th November I’m speaking at a fantastic event organised by the Bumblebee Collective. It’s a day designed to…
Advertising in the 2018 US Midterm Elections: Four Takeaways
The Wesleyan Media Project is an organisation that tracks and analyses all political advertisements in the USA. They’ve produced a…
Definition of ‘woman’ poster taken down
Pressure Group “Standing for Women” ran a poster quoting the Google Dictionary definition of the word “woman” on a billboard…
Family values ad given a brutal twist
US elections are so brutal that even very negative attack adverts often pass without comment. Consider then, that this ad…
Bigfoot used to kick incumbent Republican
This is a brilliant piece of political advertising, featuring Bigfoot as a creative vehicle, which is quickly going viral. The…
Is Britain changing its mind on Brexit?
Anti-Brexit group Best for Britain have released a new advertising campaign that tries to build belief in the idea that…
Flash drives for freedom
Flash Drives For Freedom is a campaign by the Human Rights Foundation to get people to donate USB sticks to…
This is what transparency looks like on Facebook
Facebook’s changes to improve political advertising transparency are now live in the UK. The fact that the ad is political…
Donald is coming
Donaldiscoming.com is an new site setup in preparation for the US President’s planned state visit to Britain on Friday 13th…
Emerging ‘deepfake’ technology will turbocharge fake news
‘Deepfake’ is an emerging technology that allows people to create fairly realistic face-and-voice-swap videos. It was recently used for the…