Hasta La Creative!

LONDON – Ann Summers marketing and business development director Julian Baker is leaving the erotic retailer to join discounter TK Maxx.

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve heard about how dirty our telephones, keyboards, and bedsheets are, but how about your shopping cart? Seems they’re not that clean either. And why should they be when little 5 year-old Johnny is…

LONDON – Ruth Brownlee is stepping down as director of the Association of Online Publishers after just 10 months in the role to spend more time with her young children.

Culture secretary Andy Burnham has rejected a suggestion that the government’s new bursary scheme will leave many recipients disappointed – watch the video here.

LONDON – Paul Jackson is stepping down as ITV’s director of entertainment and comedy at the end of the year and is expected to return to the production industry.

LONDON – Yesterday afternoon the world’s financial markets were like someone who’d been on a gigantic bender, but woke up, hungover admittedly, to find that the wallet, credit cards, cash and the family cat were all still in situ, writes Stephen Foster.

LONDON – Golden Square in Soho yesterday hosted hundreds of school children from around London as culture secretary Andy Burnham and M&C Saatchi founder Maurice Saatchi launched an IPA initiative to encourage a wider range of people into the advertising and creative industries.

A group at The Los Angeles Times sued the owner, Samuel Zell, accusing him of recklessness in the takeover and management of the newspaper’s parent, the Tribune Company.

(TrendHunter.com) Remember those optical illusion books where you focus on the image of the old crone until it looks like a beautiful young woman? These books are a mainstay within elementary school science classes to illustrate…

Cheesiest PR pitch ever: “Let’s hope your tequila comes with a sunrise in Miami, cause now ALL of their public bus shelter advertising is illuminated by solar panels. Check out the pics I attached.”