Agency: Leo Burnett Bangkok demonstrates the sharpness of WMF Knifes by slicing animals straight in half on a double page spread. Do chickens eyes look like then when cut in half by the way? Mental note: must get chicken and chop clean in half to test. Then make soup. Mmmm. Chicken soup. Two more inside.
HONG KONG – PHD Hong Kong has hired Deric Wong (pictured) as strategic planning manager, reporting to Ray Wong, managing director of the agency.
LONDON – Belfast City Council has unveiled a new brand identity for Belfast as part of a regeneration programme focused around celebrating the city’s industrial history and updating perceptions still locked in its political past.
SHANGHAI – Digital agency Profero has appointed Pascal Hierholz (pictured) as creative director based out of Shanghai, starting July.
LONDON – Having made a high-street comeback, M&S shares plummet as consumers tighten their belts, writes Stephen Foster, with the downturn also hitting classified revenues at Trinity Mirror.
LONDON – Aricot Vert has appointed Alpha Group’s Avril Appleyard to its board in the newly created position of account director.
LONDON – Somers Town, the feature length film co-produced by Mother for Eurostar, has taken the top prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
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LONDON – Chime Communications, owner of VCCP and Bell Pottinger, has said that there is no evidence that its performance has been affected by the economic downturn so far.
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LONDON – Luke Johnson, the chairman of Channel 4, has warned off those who would criticise advertising and reminded advertisers of the continuing importance of television as a marketing medium.
JAKARTA – In what could prove a milestone in Indonesian advertising, Indosat, one of the country’s biggest advertisers, has caved into demands from agencies to pay a pitch fee ahead of its US$15 million advertising review.
BEIJING – Youku, one of China’s ‘big three’ video-sharing sites, has secured US$30m in private equity funding.
SINGAPORE – Tribal DDB Singapore general manager Christer Eriksson (pictured) is leaving the agency to take on a regional creative and strategic role for the Omnicom network based in Hong Kong.
SINGAPORE – Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore, better known as NETS, has awarded its media account to MindShare as the company looks to take on rising competition in the city-state’s e-payment sector.
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LONDON – The ad watchdog today banned an internet ad for a gambling website because it depicted Spiderman and would appeal to children.
LONDON – Virgin Media misled customers about its broadband download speeds in a poster ad, the ad watchdog today found.
LONDON – Mother will tomorrow launch a TV campaign for the soft drink Oasis featuring a girl who runs off with a human/cactus hybrid.
LONDON – EasyJet has been reprimanded for greenwashing after one of its ads made misleading claims over its carbon emissions.
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