BP in £60m advertising blitz following oil spill

By Arif Durrani, 02 September 2010, 11:15am

BP more than tripled its advertising budget in the three months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as the energy giant looked to combat negative publicity and rising public anger in the US.

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