Co-operative backs Olympic recognition drive for netball
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The Co-operative Group is backing England Netball in its bid to get netball recognised as an Olympic sport in time for the 2016 games.
LONDON – The Co-operative Group is backing England Netball in its bid to get netball recognised as an Olympic sport in time for the 2016 games.
LONDON – Lowe London has promoted George Prest and Tom Hudson to creative directors.
LONDON – Microsoft’s deadline for Yahoo to respond to its $44.6bn (£22.4bn) takeover offer has expired, with the software giant now considering whether to launch a hostile takeover bid.
Not satisfied with passive advertising anymore, Rolling Stone and Men’s Health magazines will be offering some interactivity with their ad space.
What they want people to do is take a cell phone picture of a print ad in their magazine, send it to a special number and the readers will receive an offer or reward in return.
Eric Karjaluoto of Ideas on Ideas interviewed Kevin “Lovemarks” Roberts, a.k.a. Saatchi Kevin, Worldwide CEO of Saatchi.
I like his answer to the following question, even though I don’t believe Roberts is a soothsayer.
Eric: With the rapid changes occurring in today’s media space, do you believe there will be room for traditional agencies in ten years time?
Kevin: No. “Traditional†anything will be under threat. Progressive ideas-driven, consumer-focused digital communication agencies will thrive.
LONDON – Coldplay will become the latest band to release music as a free download when they launch their latest single via Coldplay.com.
LONDON – Ofcom has ruled that a popular show on Discovery’s Real Time channel broadcast last year breached its ban on promotional references to sponsors.
LONDON – Zattoo, the online video service that streams TV channels from around the world, has secured the rights to carry all five UK terrestrial channels online, via its media player.
From The Canadian Press
MONTREAL — Historic Quebec City hopes to take down a modern roadside decoration – the ubiquitous billboard.
The 400-year-old city is proposing a bylaw to wipe out large ad panels across much of the Quebec capital region in the next five years.
Serge Viau, the city’s assistant director general, says billboards mask Quebec City’s European architecture and stunning views.
“With the goal of cleaning up the urban landscape in mind, we decided to make the signs disappear,” Viau said of proposed changes to the city’s urban plan.
I defy the Quebecers to say this view is not stunning
People move to the city for the urban landscape, next thing you know, Quebec City will be getting rid of their strip clubs.
Also remember, if you’re going to have a billboard, the French part must be predominant if you’re also going to have your signs in English…silly separatists
Technorati Tags: billboards, Quebec, civil action
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LONDON – US-based Survey Sampling International has opened an office in Stockholm, Sweden, to service existing Scandinavian clients and win new ones.
Ad Age looks into the glaring Fort Lauderdale sun and sees Zimmerman Advertising, a bright spot in South Florida’s agency lineup.
Zimmerman Advertising launched in 1984 in a 400-square-foot space in a strip mall with used office furniture. Its expertise was pretty much limited to car-dealer ads. Mr. Zimmerman slowly grew his business, taking on bigger clients and acquiring area firms. Two decades later, Zimmerman is a beast of an agency under the Omnicom Group umbrella, with 22 offices; more than 1,000 employees; a burgeoning roster that includes Nissan, Six Flags, Crocs and Friendly’s; and projected billings of $2.5 billion in 2008.
AdAge ties this company’s success to its flamboyant founder, Jordan Zimmerman.
Jordan Zimmerman, 52 years old, tan and barrel-chested, is about to bench press 225 pounds. This is the self-imposed, militarylike ethic with which he starts each day just before 4, when his alarm clock goes off and he hurries to one of two gyms in Boca Raton. The onetime competitive bodybuilder, who was “Mr. Florida,” eats the same breakfast every day: oatmeal with fruit, scrambled egg whites and a juice made of leafy green kale and seaweed.
When he pulls into the offices of the ad agency he founded at around 7:30, he is usually the first to arrive.
“If I told someone 20 years ago that I was going to build a company like this in South Florida, they would have said I was crazy,” Mr. Zimmerman told a bleary-eyed reporter while grunting his way through a rigorous workout. “But you have to be a bit off in order to succeed in this business.”
And succeed he has…
This cowboy-boot-wearing registered Republican is known to friends as “JZ,” and while you wouldn’t confuse him with the rapper, he is every inch the mogul — he owns a stake in the NHL’s Florida Panthers — and he knows a bit about the good life. He collects Bentleys and Ferraris and flies only by private jet. He summers in the Hamptons and rubs elbows with the likes of Don King. He has even hosted President Bush at his waterfront home in a Boca Raton gated community. And he has a personal chef named Dudley, who wears a uniform with the letter Z emblazoned on it.
One of the keys to Zimmerman’s success–other than the drive of its founder–is the agency’s reliance on metrics. “JZ” dreamed up something called “Brandtailing” while in business school. His method purports to build brands for the long haul while driving purchase today.
[UPDATE] Adweek’s 25th annual Agency Report Cards segment gives Zimmerman a “B-“. Which might not be great, but it’s better than Wieden’s “C+”.
Advertising Agency: cayenne, Germany
Creative Directors: Marco Obermann, Andreas Ruthemann
Art Directors: Andreas Ruthemann, Roman Lukowski
Copywriters: Marco Obermann, Sönke Brehm
Released: December 2008
There are just some ads that will never get old because they’re fun to watch, like this ad for Renault. Finally- a commercial that successfully incorporates the use of the high jump into the auto industry! At first, you don’t know what the heck this guy is doing- perhaps contemplating suicide by running out into the middle of traffic (it’s a wonder he didn’t get hit by a car), but then he gracefully jumps into his vehicle. I didn’t notice a “do not try this at home” disclaimer, but I still wouldn’t attempt it.
LONDON – EDM Media is launching a sales lead generation service that promises to cut down on wastage by only including warm leads who have given permission to be contacted for commercial purposes.
LONDON – Oxfam has commissioned DMS to develop a new communication programme to deliver higher levels of engagement with legacy giving from the baby boomer generation.
Rolling Stone and Men’s Health want their readers to take cell-phone pictures of ads running in their pages and transmit them to special numbers. You’d think these magazines would be familiar with their advertisers and not have to rely on the public to tell them who’s running in their pages. Just kidding—it’s a bid to boost reader engagement by making print ads interactive. If nothing else, it will keep the publications busy between rounds of layoffs. An image-recognition company will scan the photos, recognize the ads, and send back more information on special offers and such. After Fred in the next cubicle showed me how to work my cell-phone camera, I took the above snap and sent it in. I can’t wait for my prize. And stop rolling your eyes, Fred.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
Rough lips? Blistex helps.
Advertising Agency: cayenne, Germany
Creative Directors: Marco Obermann, Andreas Ruthmann
Art Director: Roman Lukowski
Copywriter: Sönke Brehm
Production: Frank Schulze
Released: December 2008