Twentysix Leeds launches weight-loss site

LONDON – Healthier Weight, obesity surgery and weight-loss specialist, has tasked digital agency twentysix Leeds with delivering a media-rich website with full ecommerce functionality.

SBS TV show “East/West 101” corner ad ambient

A street corner stand-off for the show East West 101.

RazorJunior Sydney (Australia) where Josh Moore is the Creative Director and Julian Saide is the Art Director working with Giuliana DeFelice Copywriter on this project.

When I got this ‘corner ad’ (for lack of a better term, what should we call this trick?) I was reminded of a few other corner ads, and I wondered how many we might collect.

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Aegis boycotts Five after ad wrangle

LONDON – Clients of Carat and Vizeum have been pulled from advertising on Five after the broadcaster and Aegis Media failed to reach agreement over the terms of agency deals for 2008.

Brunswick set to replace Carter

Brunswick is to begin the search for a new CEO after Stephen Carter left the City agency this week to be Gordon Brown’s chief strategist.

Bright Dairy selects OMD

SHANGHAI – Bright Dairy has ended its six-year relationship with Zenith Media in favour of OMD, selecting the Omnicom agency to handle an account worth an estimated US$50 million in adex.

McCann pulls out of DiGi pitch

KUALA LUMPUR – McCann Malaysia has pulled out of a pitch for the youth and Malay marketing portion of DiGi, an account it has held since 2004.

MindShare wins Nippon Paint

SHANGHAI – Nippon Paint has handed its Rmb 700 million (US$96 million) China media buying and planning business to MindShare after a review that also included Carat.

McCann set to scoop Sony Ericsson from Saatchis

LONDON – Sony Ericsson is poised to hand its £80 million global advertising account to McCann Erickson after just 15 months at Saatchi & Saatchi.

Grey hires Williams as creative director

LONDON – Grey has appointed Jon Williams, the head of digital creative at Beattie McGuinness Bungay, to replace Dave Alberts as its top creative.

BMW kicks off digital review

LONDON – BMW, the car manufacturer, is holding a pitch for its digital creative advertising account.

Mother wins £30m pan-Euro Hyundai brief

LONDON – Mother has scooped the £30 million pan-European launch brief for the Hyundai i10 after a pitch against the German incumbent, WOB, the UK agency The Bank and the Spanish agency Revolution.

Walter Campbell steps back from Shop

LONDON – Walter Campbell, the creator of Mercedes’ “Lucky Star” and a founding partner of Shop, is stepping back from the agency as it considers buying back Omnicom’s majority stake in the business.

Today’s Hot Chili – Pay What You Can Radiohead

Radiohead’s experiment is a quizzical success. I think it raises more questions then answers. Why, at this very moment, the motion picture studios grapple and argue about DVD release:how it effects opening weekend revenue and how to beat the pirates. The traditional record labels struggle to turn a profit and resort to suing private consumers in the lost attempt to control their rights and stop downloads. Wait, I’ve got a Limewire track waiting for 2 hosts, brb. Okay, I’m back! Honestly, I’m impressed that anyone buys music at all. I’m still saving up from my CD collection which took the better part of my 1990 summertime money shelling out $17 to get that one hit single. I don’t know the way or path of life or of things or how all of these industries will turn a profit or live to see another day. I just know one thing. Everyday, I wake up, and they do! Radiohead sends them a message that there are always options and new ways of doing things. This has always been at the very heart of great profit. Original thinking and risk taking with a great product. Now if the Music Industry was really smart, they would of course convert to a model based purely on advertising revenue, much like the networks. Or if Radiohead had been REALLY smart maybe they’d have done this too. But its, cool. What they did was already pretty smart.

Tonic: Copywriter wanted

Tonic: Copywriter wanted

Advertising Agency: Tonic Communications, Dubai, UAE
Copywriter: Vincent Raffray
Art Director: Peter Walker
Published: January 2008

Dacia Logan MCV: Price comparison

Dacia Logan MCV: Price comparison

Advertising Agency: Nordpol + Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Director: Lars Ruehmann
Art Directors: Tim Schierwater, Dominik Anweiler
Copywriter: Sebastian Behrendt
Director Marketing-Communications: Joerg-Alexander Ellhof

Divorce lawyer: Business card

Divorce lawyer: Business card

Advertising Agency: Propaganda Bucharest, Romania
Creative Director: Dan Moldovan
Art Director: Bogdan Moraru
Copywriter: Adrian Albu

Sebamed: Guy

Sebamed: Guy

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Beirut, Lebanon
Creative Director: Samer Younes
Art Director: Rajaa Khalifé

Sebamed: Girl

Sebamed: Girl

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Beirut, Lebanon
Creative Director: Samer Younes
Art Director: Rajaa Khalifé

SEB Bank: Street golf

SEB Bank: Street golf

Advertising Agency: Storåkers McCann, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Ola Von Bahr
Copywriter: Christian Heinig
Other additional credits: MÃ¥rten Lyth, Malin Almqvist & Jenny Cherni

Mont Blanc: Newspaper

Mont Blanc: Newspaper

For the love of writing.

Advertising Agency: The Jupiter Drawing Room, South Africa
Creative Director: Livio Tronchin
Art Director: Jamie Mietz
Copywriter: Johnathan Commerford
Typographer: Joanne Thomas
Executive Creative Director: Ross Chowles