Month: July 2026

CAP – All that glisters is not gold – advertising gold investments.

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: All that glisters is not gold – advertising gold investments but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Shakespeare warned us that not everything is as valuable as it might at first seem and that certainly seems to be the case in a recent string of ASA rulings on ads offering gold as an investment. Promising glittering returns and endless riches can be very risky so we’ve polished…

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Greenpeace announces new ocean boulder barrier plans, telling PM: “If your government won’t protect our seas, we will”

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace UK has today announced its intention to create new underwater boulder barriers in UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).  A decade after the Brexit vote, the charity, backed by a raft of celebrities and ocean conservation organisations, has accused the government of failing to use its post-Brexit powers to properly protect UK seas from destructive industrial fishing. In 2020, The Fisheries Act gave the UK government full powers to protect UKMPAs. Despite this, destructive industrial fishing vessels are still allowed to trawl the vast majority of these so-called protected areas.…

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Aberdeenshire wind farm delivering more than renewable power: lower‑emission construction and local benefits

Stuart Mitchell

Construction of Vattenfall’s Clashindarroch II onshore wind farm near Huntly is demonstrating how renewable energy projects can reduce emissions across their full lifecycle while delivering benefits for local communities and the environment. The 63 MW wind farm, currently under construction in Aberdeenshire, builds on more than a decade of renewable energy generation at the existing Clashindarroch site. Once operational, it is expected to generate enough renewable electricity to power more than 61,500 UK homes (1) each year and avoid around 90,800 tonnes of CO₂ annually (2) by displacing fossil-fuel generated…

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£500K Fund Launches South Yorkshire’s ‘Year of the Child’

Stuart Mitchell

Health, charity and political leaders dedicated to improving childhoods in South Yorkshire are joining forces to launch a first-of-its-kind investment fund today. The £500,000 Dream Big South Yorkshire Fund will mobilise the private sector, philanthropists, and the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority to spend money on projects in South Yorkshire that specifically help children. It is the first dedicated ‘child centred’ investment fund in the country, using the Child Lens Investment Framework implemented globally by Save the Children Global Ventures. Following a successful pilot, the fund will be rolled out…

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WPP named first launch partner to pilot Meta’s newest creative solution, integrated within WPP Open

Stuart Mitchell

WPP has announced it is expanding its long-standing partnership with Meta. WPP will become the first advertising partner to pilot Meta’s new creative solution, built to navigate creative strategy and optimisation, currently in testing, for brands to analyse and suggest improvements for creative performance. It will be integrated directly into WPP Open, WPP’s pioneering agentic marketing platform. The partnership addresses a critical need for advertisers. In Q1 for 2026, global ad impressions across Meta increased by 19%. With more than 3.5 billion people using at least one of Meta’s apps…

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