LONDON – Marketing budgets have been cut to the biggest extent in the eight-year history of the IPA’s Bellwether Report and indicates “a severe worsening of business confidence” as 35% of companies revise budgets down.
LONDON – Buyout talks between marketing services group Creston, owner of ad agency DLKW, and a private equity firm have broken down.
It’s time again for the Doritos crash the superbowl competition where Doritos hands over their Super-bowl commercial air time to the by popular vote winning film. All budding film makers take note, classic funny unexpected twists wins. Just look at Mousetrap created by Billy Federighi which aired during the 2008 Super Bowl XLII. This year you will not only have a chance to get your work aired, but if its voted top ad of the bowl you score a cool cold one million dollars as well. $1 Million! Hey, this should be cake seeing as fart joke Bud ads tend to score high on that ad meter. 😉
LONDON – British Airways has offered a free flight to Mr T following the revelation that The A-Team star will be ‘getting on a plane’ to the UK next year to promote Snickers.
LONDON – Suzanne Douglas, the chief marketing officer (CMO) for Heinz UK & Ireland, is leaving the role to run the company’s Australian business.
SpellingChange.com, allows supporters of Senator Barack Obama to create custom banner ads, t-shirts, bumper stickers, posters, and postcards using letters of the alphabet specially-designed by dozens of the nation’s top designers, photographers, and artists.
Contributors to the project include Stefan Sagmeister, Karen Collins, R.O. Blechman, Larry Fink, Jake Chessum, MC Paul Barman, and even a housewife in Texas who created an embroidered “S”. Each of the participants reinterpreted one letter of the alphabet in a way that represents what Obama’s candidacy means to them. In all, more than 100 letters were created.
Supporters can browse the alphabet and click on individual letters to learn more about the artist and the inspiration behind the design. To view the alphabet, go to http://www.spellingchange.com/browse-alphabet.php.
You can even go to make a word and create your own bumper sticker or T-shirt with the letters and people posing in Letter-Tee’s available. Here’s Adland with a particularly nifty looking “N”.
The current crisis has had the effect of making even wider the divide between people who think that they should stay low and eat frugally until merrier times finally come back and those who believe that the recession is just another sign that the system our economy relies on is fucked up and that time has come to look for alternative. More ethical alternatives.
Resist, is bringing you the live webcast of a debate that will try to bring some answers to the question:
The event, supported by Amnesty International UK, takes place online on October 16th – New York: 10am / London: 3pm / Mumbai: 7.30pm.
From the press release: Global media conglomerates no longer monopolise the ability to transmit messages both locally and internationally. The use of the internet, mobile phones, satellite radio and the declining cost of media technologies have transformed the way individuals and communities voice their concerns. Many have argued that these decentralised communications networks have lead to an increasingly democratic and accessible media culture. Yet there has been little discussion around how these networks might impact our understanding of poverty as well as serve as a means to resist its causes.
This event will ask how we can harness the power of these networks in order to more effectively depict and understand the complex web of reasons behind the existence of poverty. And can these networks in the long run open up a space for people who live in poverty to participate in the culture of political life?
Panelists participating to the Debate – Web of Dissent
Gael Garcia Bernal is an actor whose credits include The Motorcycle Diaries, Amores Perros and Y tu mamá también. He is currently making Resist, a documentary on individual stories of rebellion, told through a website and film project to be released in 2010.
Colm Ó Cuanacháin is Senior Director of Campaigns with Amnesty International. He has held a number of other roles in Amnesty, including Secretary General of the organisation’s Irish Section. He worked formerly as Head of Campaigns with ActionAid International.
Roland Harwood is Director of Open Innovation at NESTA. He heads up NESTA’s Connect programme, which supports innovation through extreme collaboration.
Wai Mun Yoon is a digital strategist and consultant who has over a decade of experience of using innovative technologies and emerging media platforms to communicate with global audiences.
(TrendHunter.com) Hollywood star Christina Applegate has donated hundreds of roses she made from ribbons during her mastectomy recovery earlier this year.
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LONDON – The man who saved the world? That’s probably the way Gordon Brown sees it on crunch day for Britain’s banks, as Sir Sir Philip Green attempts to save the high street from an Icelandic thaw, and General Motors looks to save itself and seek a merger, writes Stephen Foster
LONDON – ITV boss Michael Grade wants stars such as Simon Cowell, leading ‘Coronation Street’ actors, and Ant and Dec to take pay cuts in the spirit of ‘sharing the pain’ after the broadcaster’s decision to slash jobs.
LONDON – ITV1 enjoyed bumper audiences on Saturday, with a peak audience of 11.3m tuning in to the first live show of ‘The X Factor’ and 9m watching England thump lowly Kazakhstan 5-1 at Wembley.
LONDON – Curvy Wonderbra model Katie Green, who was told she was too fat to model lingerie, has been signed up as the new face and body of Ultimo.
LOS ANGELES – Actress Charlize Theron has been ordered to appear in court for breaching her contract with Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil, which is seeking $20m (£12m) in damages from the Oscar winner for wearing a Christian Dior watch.
LONDON – Spring Advertising has appointed George Ashford to the newly created role of research director, working alongside managing director Erika Clegg and creative director James Kindred.
One of my favorite cartoon shows, The Pink Panther, is making a big worldwide comeback on the Cartoon Network in Fall 2009.
Thanks to a deal between Turner Broadcasting and MGM Worldwide Television, The…
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News correspondent and wife of the former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, has for years kept her potential conflict of interest in check.
(TrendHunter.com) One of my favorite cartoon shows, The Pink Panther, is making a big worldwide comeback on the Cartoon Network in Fall 2009.
Thanks to a deal between Turner Broadcasting and MGM Worldwide Television,…
CNN, The Financial Times and other media companies are setting up shop in the island city that is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
A picture about talking dogs, “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” trampled Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe at the weekend box office.
When movie star Choi Jin-sil was found dead, South Korean police, the media and members of Parliament immediately pointed fingers at the Internet.
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