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Advertising Agency: TBWA\Tequila Singapore
Executive Creative Director: Graham Kelly
Creative Director: Robin Tan
Art Directors: Chutima Ermukdakul, Danny Teo
Copywrriters: Eddie Azadi, Graham Kelly
Programmers: Gerald Yeo, Ben Williams, Hilwan Idrus
Producer: Lynette Leong

LONDON – Ofcom has slapped the BBC with a £400,000 fine – the highest to be imposed by Ofcom against the BBC – for faking winners and misleading audiences in numerous viewer and listener competitions.

Paul Shearer shares his two pence in the organgrinder / guardian blog here.

What’s so amazing is that the ads were pulled because of complaints from the US. We Brits are supposed to be the upholders of all things Godlike.

Is it the Obama influence? Or has Mr Bush got too much time on his hands and is watching daytime Freeview?

Come on! We don’t complain that the World Series does not include anyone outside the US. Or that you never let Elvis come here to visit us.

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Advertising Agency: Doner Advertising, Southfield, USA
Production Company: Tool of North America, Santa Monica, CA
Director: Geordie Stephens
DP: Martin Tedin
Line Producer: Joby Ochsner
Exec Producers: Jennifer Siegel and Brian Latt
Production Designer: David Hedge
Chief Creative Officer: Rob Strasberg
Creative Directors: John Grammatico, Bob Veasey
Agency Producer: Dan Barbieri
Editorial Company: Cosmo Street, Santa Monica, CA
Editor: Christjan Jordan
Editorial Producer: Shada Shariatzadeh
Telecine Company: Riot, Santa Monica, CA
Colorist: Steve Rodriguez
Post Production/VFX Company: Riot, Santa Monica, CA
Online Artist/Lead Inferno Compositor: Pierre La Querre
Inferno Compositors: Kevin Prendiville, Satoshi Ozeki
Jr Desktop Compositor: Robert Tatum
Roto Artist: David Hernandez
VFX Producers: Robert Owens, Carla Attanasio
Audio Post Company: POP Sound, Santa Monica, CA
Engineer/Mixer: Steven Dickson
Music Production Company: Beacon Street Studios, Venice, CA
Composers/Arrangers: Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau
Aired: July 2008

LONDON – MindShare Worldwide has appointed Jonathan Chadwick to head its international Nike account, moving him over from his role as managing partner across central Europe and Russia.

With so many using variations of the image recently, I dare say that the Rubik’s Cube is having an advertising revival.

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LONDON – Guardian Media Group’s pre-tax profits in the year ending March 30 jumped to a massive £306.4m, up from £97.7m in 2007, following the sale of a 49.9% stake in Trader Media Group.

LONDON – Sportswear giant Nike has terminated its sponsorship deal with troubled Joey Barton, the Newcastle United Premiership footballer who recently completed a jail term for assault.

LONDON – The markets could be in for a turbulent times as reporting season begins, writes Stephen Foster, while the big airlines look to consolidation in these uncertain times.

LONDON – The advertising watchdog today banned an ad for the Training and Development Agency for Schools, aimed at attracting new teachers to the profession.