LONDON – BBC One’s five-part thriller ‘Criminal Justice’ is still going strong with the penultimate part pulling in 4.6m viewers on BBC One last night, according to unofficial overnight figures, beating ITV1’s story of ‘Abba: Mama Mia the musical’.
LONDON – Martin MacConnol, chief executive of Wardour Publishing & Design, has taken over as chairman of the Association of Publishing Agencies from Sean King, director at Seven Squared.
LONDON – Yahoo is considering offering rebel shareholder Carl Icahn two seats on its board – its latest attempt to persuade him to end his quest to remove Yahoo’s board and replace it with executives open to a sale of the company to Microsoft.
SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Education (MOE) of Singapore has handed its S$2 million (US$1.5 million) recruitment campaign for teachers to local shop Up BrandBuzz and Maxus following a government tender.
LONDON – Leo Burnett has won the £27 million Homebase pitch following a final shoot out against CHI & Partners.
LONDON – The British Paralympics Association has launched its first direct response television campaign created by direct agency Mike Colling & Co (MC&C).
Advertising Agency: Torke Stunt, Lisboa, Portugal
Creative Directors: André Rabanea, ThaÃs Fabris
Art Director: João Pereira
Copywriter: Frederico Roberto
Advertising Agency: JWT Dubai, UAE
Executive Creative Director: Chafic Haddad
Creative Directors / Copywriters / Art Directors / Typographers: Peter Moyse, Adrian An
Photographer: Tejal Patni
Illustrator: Adrian An
Art Buyer: Emily Haddad
Account Supervisors: Francois Kanaan, Prabhakar Iyer
Advertiser’s Supervisors: Leena Harazeen, Nicola Finetti
LONDON – DDB Worldwide has scooped the £85m Tourism Australia account after a final shoot-out against Saatchi & Saatchi.
Brief:
Since the beginning of 2008, a new law gives the German federal government broad access to stored telephone and Internet data — including e-mail addresses, length of call and numbers dialled — for a six-month period. The private initative “Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung” called for a class-suit against the new law. But how can you make people believe how many traces they leave when surfing the Web?
Solution:
Though widespread discussions in the press, most users don’t realise what kind of data and to which extent they leave behind when surfing the Web. A special program visualises the digital fingerprint of every user. The fingerprints lead the user to a landing page and to special browser for anynomous Web surfing.
Results:
Being launched just in 2008, the “Fingerprint” project may be able, to fuel the discussion about privacy in the Internet and raise awareness for the issue. The sheer number of 30,000 participants that joined the class-suit of the Initiative at the German Constitutional Court clearly demonstrates the public interest.
Advertising Agency: NORDPOL+ HAMBURG, Germany
Creative Director: Ingo Fritz
Claudius Gerstner, Nordpol+ Hamburg
Art Directors: Dominik Anweiler, Mark Höfler
LONDON – Tourism Australia has appointed DDB Worldwide to handle its $169m advertising account for the next three years.
You have never slept so deep.
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Paris, France
Executive Creative Director / Creative Director: Erik Vervroegen
Copywriter: Alban Galle
Art Director: Cyril Drouot
Photographer: Dimitri Daniloff
Account Supervisor: Laurence Dupas-Gelin
LONDON – Endemol UK, the TV production group behind hit shows such as ‘Big Brother’ and ‘Deal or No Deal’, has appointed Adam Valkin as global head of digital media with a mandate to build and acquire new digital businesses.
LONDON – Yahoo! Europe has appointed Emmanuel Frantz as vice-president and chief finance officer.
LONDON – CNN International and South African Tourism have created a user-generated campaign aimed at raising the profile of the country among business and leisure travellers.
NEW YORK – Google has been ordered by a US court to handover the personal details of everyone who has ever watched a video on YouTube, which it owns, as the result of a court case brought by MTV’s parent company Viacom.
CHINA – China’s digital sector has continued to attract heavy investment, with more than US$100m flowing into the sector in the past week.
Award season ain’t over yet – check out the Chip Shop awards where the entries are now posted for viewing on the site.
The Chip Shop Awards are different. It has no rules. It has no regulations. It has no baggage. It doesn’t have a copy writer either, for that matter.
The “wanker” ad on the left here is for the Tourettes Syndrome (UK) Association. It had me squirting coffee out of my nose. Caspa Marketing officially owe me a new keyboard.
CHINA – A series of problems connecting to Facebook in China has led to rumours of a crackdown by authorities.
CHINA – Telstra has boosted its presence in China’s digital market with the purchase of majority stakes in two website companies.
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