LONDON – Christian Dior has apologised to its Chinese customers after film star Sharon Stone, a model for the French fashion label, suggested that the Sichuan earthquake was bad karma resulting from Beijing’s policy in Tibet.
(TrendHunter.com) While attending a jewellery arts program, Sarah Hamel realized the incredible opportunity she had to collaborate with her talented classmates and came up with the concept behind the first Made You Loo…
LONDON – Arnold, the Havas-owned US agency, is opening a London shop, headed by Paul Shearer, the global executive creative director at Nitro, and Johan Fourie, its managing director.
LONDON – E.ON, the home energy group formerly known as Powergen, has kicked off a review of its £17 million media planning and buying business.
LONDON – Nigel Jones, the president of DraftFCB London, has quit to join Publicis as its UK group chairman and chief executive.
LONDON – Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy is poised to snatch the Hovis account from McCann Erickson following a pitch between the Premier Foods roster agencies.
LONDON – The Department of Health has called a £12 million advertising and media pitch to raise awareness of the risks and dangers of strokes.
LONDON – Renault-Nissan is reviewing its £500 million-plus international media agency arrangements and is looking to consolidate media for the two car brands for the first time.
I’ve removed the comments only RSS feed, as it confused the hell out of automagick scraper do-dahs such as Technorati and Snap. Since nobody was really using it anyway, I don’t think it will be missed. If I’m wrong correct me under this post. (Do y’all miss the ability to get RSS feeds of your comments, the comments under each post and so on that we used to have? )
I’ve also removed the cute green search box to direct more attention to the block that lets you search commercials only and news posts with images and so on, since that’s a more “targeted” search people seem to be overlooking. When you have a hard time finding a commercial, go straight to commercials only search, makes it so much easier.
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SEOUL Global alcoholic beverage producer Diageo has called a creative pitch for its Windsor Premier whisky – the company’s largest brand in Asia – in China and Korea.
– Wired interviewed the director of Weezer’s “Pork and Beans” music video, a tribute to ‘net-ebrities.
BEIJING – The mainland Government has suspended all TV advertising and entertainment programming as part of a three-day media blackout which pays tribute to victims of the massive earthquake in Sichuan province.
GLOBAL – Nike Southeast Asia marketing director Tim Parkinson (pictured) is to relinquish his role for a new position leading marketing at Umbro, the football sportswear brand which Nike acquired earlier this year.
ASIA-PACIFIC – Lowe Worldwide is expected to emerge the victor in a tug-of-war with DDB for Unilever’s Wall’s ice cream business in Asia-Pacific, excluding the Philippines.
In the style of punters, desktop hijackers and Trojan horses circa 1998, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation is circulating this “viral.” (Get it? GET IT?!!!)
ASIA-PACIFIC – Watsons Personal Store is believed to be in the final stages of contract negotiations regarding its US$20 million regional media business, with OMD expected to prevail after a pitch against fellow incumbents Carat and MediaCom.
TOKYO – The Japan Family Planning Association has launched a pioneering six-day campaign to raise awareness of oral contraception among young Japanese women.
HONG KONG – Euro RSCG Hong Kong has confirmed that some staff will leave the agency in the wake of managing director Margaret Kennedy’s (pictured) resignation.
MUMBAI – Shyam Shanker (pictured), president of Publicis Groupe’s consolidated media buying operation India Media Exchange (IMX), has stepped down one year after the unit was formed.
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