Tourism Australia calls global creative and media review

LONDON – Tourism Australia is to review its global advertising and media buying account. The creative account for marketing Australia as a tourist destination is worth £26m and the media £51m.

Tourism Australia calls global ad and media pitch

LONDON – Tourism Australia has put its global advertising and media account up for review.

Quiet Storm wins place on Little, Brown roster

LONDON – Quiet Storm has been awarded a place on the Little, Brown Book Group advertising roster following a three-way pitch.

Bramham launches new site for 35th anniversary

LONDON – Leeds design agency The Whole Caboodle has created a new website for the Bramham International Horse Trials, which this year celebrates its 35th anniversary.

Army Benevolent Fund appoints Davies as donors manager

LONDON – The Army Benevolent Fund has appointed Holly Davies, a former executive at the Prince’s Trust, as its new trusts and major donors manager.

Ashes to Ashes leaves ITV1 in its wake with 7m viewers

LONDON – ‘Ashes to Ashes’, the much-anticipated follow up to timewarp drama ‘Life on Mars’, launched with an impressive 7m viewers last night, giving BBC One a ratings win over ITV1’s ‘Trial and Retribution’.

Capital lands Ratatouille promotional campaign

LONDON – GCap Media’s Capital Radio is running a major on-air and online campaign to support the DVD launch of Disney’s animated comedy ‘Ratatouille’, which will include a competition offering listeners trips to Paris.

Paramount’s Kung Fu Panda joins New Year parade

LONDON – Mediaedge:cia has secured a sponsorship deal between its client Paramount Pictures and the annual Chinese New Year parade in London.

AOL clinches ad deals with The Spectator and The Business

LONDON – AOL UK has signed a deal with The Spectator and sister title, The Business, to sell their online advertising.

Ramundberget Ski Resort: Rails

Ramundberget Ski Resort: Rails

Four new rails in our Dreampark this season.

Advertising Agency: Ruth, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Henrik Täppmark
Copywriter: Johan Fredrikzon
Other additional credits: Erik Wünsche, Ninna Lakso
Released: January 2008

NHS London appoints new comms director

NHS London has recruited Transport for London’s director of group comms to take on the challenging task of communicating the restructuring of London’s healthcare.

Link Lust: Linking like it’s 1999

This truly terrifying ad for the NSPCC with the line “Don’t lose control” found via AdFreak “Uk Child abuse ads don’t skip on gore”. Don’t know when (or even if but we assume) these ran. AdFreak found them via Mark’s Arthole on flickr. I don’t know about you but this image makes me cringe and want to hug puppies, look at rainbows and lock out the bad bad world. Go away!


Ralph have done another TV show tailored viral, this time it’s for a show called Breaking Bad where a mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher unexpectedly adopts a criminal new lifestyle when he finds out that he has cancer – he opens a Meth lab in a a trailer. In the viral, Walter White – our meek high school chemistry teacher – dishes out advice that I should get off the computer and live life now. I think I will. Sounds like it’ll be a good show too – course Walter’s advice to stop watching too much TV becomes rather ironic when it is for a TV show.

BREAKING BAD is created by highly acclaimed writer, producer and director Vince Gilligan (“The X-Files”), executive produced by Oscar® winner Mark Johnson (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Notebook, Donnie Brasco), with the pilot episode photographed by two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer John Toll (Braveheart, Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai).


Today’s really difficult timewaster: Labyrinth spin the black circle Flash game… If you get past level eleven let me know. I suspect it’s impossible.

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HIV: Umbrella

HIV: Umbrella

Falling asleep on the bus after midnight with your purse open?
Not getting an HIV test could be riskier.

Advertising Agency: Neiman Group, Harrisburg, USA
Creative Director: Jeff Odiorne
Art Director: Steve Willis
Copywriter: William Paul

HIV: Microwave

HIV: Microwave

Straightening your hair in a microwave oven?
Not getting an HIV test could be riskier.

Advertising Agency: Neiman Group, Harrisburg, USA
Creative Director: Jeff Odiorne
Art Director: Steve Willis
Copywriter: William Paul

HIV: Chicken

HIV: Chicken

Criticizing Momma’s Sunday dinner?
Not getting an HIV test could be riskier.

Advertising Agency: Neiman Group, Harrisburg, USA
Creative Director: Jeff Odiorne
Art Director: Steve Willis
Copywriter: William Paul

HIV: Bus

HIV: Bus

Falling asleep on the bus after midnight with your purse open?
Not getting an HIV test could be riskier.

Advertising Agency: Neiman Group, Harrisburg, USA
Creative Director: Jeff Odiorne
Art Director: Steve Willis
Copywriter: William Paul

DraftFCB appoints two direct creative teams

LONDON – DraftFCB London has poached Susan Mansfield and Donna Williams from independent direct marketing agency WDMP, as one of two new creative teams.

Duff & Phelps: Map

Duff & Phelps: Map

Doing a transaction that stretches across borders? Get the power of Duff & Phelps.

Advertising Agency: Della Femina Rothschild Jeary & Partners, New York, USA
Creative Director: Jerry Della Femina
Associate Creative Director / Art Director: Jason Rogers
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter: Mac McLaurin
Producer: Francis Timoney

Duff & Phelps: Pen

Duff & Phelps: Pen

Feeling the weight of a make-or-break merger? Get the power of Duff & Phelps.

Advertising Agency: Della Femina Rothschild Jeary & Partners, New York, USA
Creative Director: Jerry Della Femina
Associate Creative Director / Art Director: Jason Rogers
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter: Mac McLaurin
Producer: Francis Timoney

Duff & Phelps: Folders

Duff & Phelps: Folders

Facing an uphill battle with pending litigation? Get the power of Duff & Phelps.

Advertising Agency: Della Femina Rothschild Jeary & Partners, New York, USA
Creative Director: Jerry Della Femina
Associate Creative Director / Art Director: Jason Rogers
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter: Mac McLaurin
Producer: Francis Timoney