LONDON – Bounty, which has been marketing to new parents in maternity wards for nearly 50 years, is to move into financial service in partnership with Skipton, the UK’s sixth largest building society.
Sydney’s First Fleet Park has a new peachy attraction which according to LiveNews.com.au ‘Ella’ was modelled on All Saints star Jolene Anderson. How long the peaches survived, who knows.
LONDON – It is being reported this morning that the condemned student journalist Sayad Parwez Kambaksh will not face execution, according to a senior government official in Afghanistan.
LONDON – Five experienced an 8.2% boost in ad revenue last year, on the back of its new digital channels and an improvement in total TV advertising.
LONDON – Internet users in the UK are expected to download 1.5bn online TV programmes during 2008, according to a report, which says the market has been boosted by the arrival of the BBC iPlayer.
LONDON – Discovery Networks has started a review of its £4m UK media planning and buying account, which is held by Starcom.
LONDON – Virgin Media has effectively ruled out a second bid for ITV, as acting chief executive Neil Berkett signalled a fresh strategy for the cable TV group.
LONDON – AOL has acquired affiliate marketing network buy.at for Advertising.com, as it looks to strategically strengthen its internet advertising services.
LONDON – Diageo and the Nolet family, which owns super-premium vodka Ketel One, have formed a 50/50 venture to market and distribute the brand globally.
LONDON – Search portal FindaProperty.com is mounting a five-week TV campaign, with the first ad breaking 11 February during the Coronation Street break.
Yesterday was Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, and International Pancake Day for a lot of people, even though only 27% of households in Britain planned to make pancakes, and International House of Pancakes in the US decided to move pancake day to feb 12 instead since super Tuesday was overshadowing their pancake fest. Over in Sweden our pre-Lent party is celebrated with a calorie-laden dessert bun called a Semla instead. Still, pancakes are flat and wonder bra changes flat things to be not flat right? Yes, you know where this ad is going – see it inside.
BSkyB has posted a loss before tax of £36m in the first half of its year as the value of the satellite broadcaster’s 17.9% stake in ITV dropped.
LONDON – EADS, the European aerospace corporation, has chosen Publicis to develop and international corporate advertising campaign to be launched later this year.
LONDON – A provocative ad for a lap dancing club and a mobile poster for the Christian Congress for Traditional Values attacking homosexual marriages have fallen foul of the advertising watchdog’s rules.
LONDON – Motorola has escaped a ban for a Samurai-style Razr 2 mobile phone ad despite nine complaints that it glamorises violence because the phone is held at an angle so that it resembles a knife.
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Advertising Agency: DDB South Africa
Executive Creative Director: Gareth Lessing
Art Director: Darren Borrino
Copywriter: Stuart Turner
Creative: Paul Binikos
Advertising Agency: DDB South Africa
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Art Director: Darren Borrino
Copywriter: Stuart Turner
Creative: Paul Binikos
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Advertising Agency: BBDO Guerrero Ortega, Manila, The Philippines
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Creative Directors: James Bernardo, Joel Limchoc
Art Director: Joni Caparas
Copywriters: James Bernardo, Maui Reyes
Producer: Al Salvador
Computer Artist: Oliver Brillantes
Account Executives: Edg Samson, Carlo Medina, Paolo Broma
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