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That was the verdict of comedian Al Murray, on Twitter, when Metro Bank made a song-and-dance to celebrate the opening of its 12th branch this weekend in Chiswick. 'I have actually crossed the road t...
Some stories are so jaw-droppingly weird that you just have to write about them...or at least I do. This story is one of those. So let me see if I can follow the logic that would make a bank turn do...
ANZ have done a rebrand and ditched their blue stripy logo for a blue logo with three blobs. http://thefinancialbrand.com/2009/04/21/anz-new-logo/ Lazy journalists are reporting that the re-design co...
Apple have been told not to run a TV ad again in the UK for the iPhone 3G after 17 people complained that it exaggerated the speed of 3G. The ad used the phrase "really fast" repeatedly, cou...
HSBC stands accused of 'cultural insensitivity' after dressing up an overweight white man to look like a sumo wrestler and running it on ads across the UK. Complaints have come in that it looks like t...
Have you seen www.urelife.com? I thought this was a Nathan Barley-style spoof at first. Surely a web site can't be this bad? Not even BBC3 looks this 'yoof'. What crack team of marketing geniuses t...
The Mail app on the Mac comes with an RSS feed entitled Apple hot news which as you might expect is full of feel-good, brainwashing nonsense about all things Apple. Some of it's interesting - for exa...
The Register are reporting that HMRC apparently got through an impressive £1.4m in 2006 coming up with a new slogan - HMRC Ambition. Yup that's only 700,000 per word. Bargain. While we're on the top...
There was some discussion in the office about why it was called Eros. When we twigged the reason and that you can't after all use it in Ann Summers it seemed less interesting. Still I imagine early a...
Barclaycard has gone all high tech with its marketing for the new OnePulse card and set up a Micro site called ‘The institute for future living’. A fictional character called Professor Danny shows yo...
I looked on with horror today at the replacement for the rather nice London 2012 logo. I liked the old one - the Thames sweeping through the 2012. Classy. We're good at logos and design in the UK. T...
In an interesting twist of daftness it would appear blogging is to be made compulsory at Sony BMG, according to The Register. In the past, people have got in serious hot water after blogging and not ...