Hertz reviews £20m pan-European marketing account

LONDON – Car rental brand Hertz has kicked off a review of its £20m pan-European above- and below-the-line marketing communications account.

Hertz reviews all marketing services accounts

LONDON – Car rental brand Hertz has kicked off a review of its UK above- and below-the-line marketing communications account.

New thinking urged to open up industry beyond white middle classes

LONDON – Hamish Pringle, director general of the IPA, has urged moves to open up the advertising industry to people who are not mostly white, male and middle-class.

Nissan Navara: Swiss knife

Nissan Navara: Swiss knife

Multiuses adrenalin

Advertising Agency: TBWA\ Barcelona, Spain
Creative Directors: Ramon Sala, Juank Espejo
Art Director: Jordi Rins
Copywriter: Juank Espejo
Illustrator: David Teixidor
Postproduction: Nova Era
Published: March 2008

Jetix extends partnership with winter sports firm

LONDON – Jetix Europe is extending its work with Oxbow, one of the world’s major snow and surf clothing manufacturers, to include its Swedish and German channels.

Carplus launches integrated campaign for car sharing

LONDON – Carplus, the national charity advocating car sharing schemes, is to launch an integrated campaign to promote awareness of car clubs across London.

London agency ‘licenses’ strategy to the regions

A London PR agency has ‘licensed’ its media relations strategy in what is believed to be the first deal of its kind in the UK market.

HarperCollins poaches new digital development director from Sky

LONDON – HarperCollins Publishers has today announced that Charlie Redmayne, currently head of commercial partnerships at Sky, will be its new director of digital development.

St Peter’s Church: Crying Mary

St Peter's Church: Crying Mary

Advertising Agency: Gratterpalm. Leeds, UK
Creative Directors: Rick Ward, Pete Camponi
Art Director:Barrie Robinson
Copywriter:Tim Jarvis
Director: Nate Camponi
Aired: December 2007

Mother slams media coverage of Bridgend suicides

LONDON – The mother of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself in Bridgend, south Wales, has accused the media of glamorising suicide and putting ‘an idea into his head’.

MySpace plans to launch ad-supported music service

LONDON – MySpace is planning to launch an ad-supported free-to-listen online music service and is said to have been in talks with the four major record labels.

TalkTalk moves online media buying into CHI

LONDON – TalkTalk, the home phone and broadband company owned by The Carphone Warehouse, has appointed CHI & Partners Media to handle its online media buying account.

Yahoo! improves redundancy in case of company sale

LONDON – Yahoo! has responded to Microsoft’s increasingly aggressive takeover tactics by giving its employees better redundancy deals in the event the company is sold and they are then laid off.

City Republic: oil, sandwiches and chocolate worries

Stephen Foster assesses the markets as the price of oil heads north again, Pret A Manger is looking ripe for takeover and Cadbury takes a beating.

St Pancras ads fall foul over non-existent farmers’ market

LONDON – St Pancras International station, the new home of the Eurostar in London, has run into trouble for promoting a farmers’ market that has not yet opened.

Wong takes on global role for Coca-Cola

SINGAPORE – Former Coca-Cola South Pacific marketing manager Karen Wong has taken on a new role as regional director of global platforms.

McCann Malaysia wins Prudential

KUALA LUMPUR – McCann Erickson has won the estimated RM10 million (US$3.1 million) creative account of insurance company Prudential, after a final round of pitching with incumbent Ogilvy & Mather.

UIP selects MEC in Taiwan

TAIPEI – United International Pictures (UIP) has handed its media planning and buying business, believed to be worth between US$4 to US$5 million, to MEC in Taiwan.

MS&L brings digital practice to Asia

ASIA-PACIFIC – Manning Selvage & Lee has expanded its North American digital practice, MS&L Digital, into Asia.

Panel to investigate TV scandal

MANILA – An industry panel is being formed in the Philippines to investigate the validity of media research in the wake of the country’s latest TV ratings scandal.