LONDON – David Tennant has said he is quitting his role as ‘Doctor Who’ at the end of next year, bringing an end to a four-year stint as the nation’s favourite Time Lord and money spinner for the BBC.
LONDON – Bauer Media has signed a six-figure multi-platform deal with games publisher Electronic Arts to promote the release of its new Xbox 360 game – Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.
LONDON – Delta is buying fellow US airline Northwest in a $2.8bn deal to create the world’s biggest airline, while Lufthansa takes control of UK airline BMI.
Brief: Motivate RTCRM employees to willingly show up at work at seven am twice a week and get down and sweaty.
Solution: Make funny T-shirts and posters, hope for the best.
Surprise: They actually showed up and joined in the extreme exercises!
I don’t think you could ever pay lazy old me enough for that but I must admit, I love the “advertising stinks” T-shirt, as well as the “ass you kick” one. :))
Teen Vogue is opening a store in the Mall at Short Hills in New Jersey that will be a place for girls to relax, try on clothes and drink smoothies — all while marketers woo them.
The nation’s largest cable operator also said it expects to exceed its free cash flow growth forecast of at least 20 percent in fiscal 2008.
LONDON – The backers of the Project Kangaroo video-on-demand product have promised to deliver a service backed by an ad-funded model offering free content to viewers.
LONDON – The Children’s Workforce Development Council is looking for an agency to handle a three-year brief promoting the value of social work.
LONDON – Tesco is talking to agencies with a view to expanding its digital advertising roster.
LONDON – Burberry, the British luxury fashion brand, has kicked off a search for a global advertising agency.
(TrendHunter.com) The credit crisis will likely lead to more DIY projects, but how extreme will people go to save a buck? Just look at the Knitted Gingerbread House. It isn’t just an architectural facade made of knotted…
LONDON – The Conservative Party is proposing a plan to offer ?incentives to broadcasters that produce socially responsible programming.
LONDON – DDB London to handle the global advertising account for its financial spread-betting brand IG Index.
LONDON – LONDON – Gallaher, the tobacco company that owns Benson & Hedges and Hamlet cigars, is on the hunt for an agency to provide experiential and field marketing for its range of products.
LONDON – Fifty Foot Squid, a digital agency start-up, has won a brief to handle the global digital roll out of Dove’s Self-Esteem Fund.
LONDON – VivaKi, the Publicis media arm, is working on plans to launch its own outdoor specialist buying agency in markets across Europe.
LONDON – Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest global mining companies, has approached network agencies with a global advertising brief.
LONDON – Agency Republic has won a brief from the Cadbury-owned organic confectionary brand Green & Black’s to draw up its digital strategy for 2009.
LONDON – The BBC is looking for an agency to handle customer relationship marketing for its iPlayer and other services.
LONDON – Chris Green, the UK managing director of Naked Communications, is stepping down from the role.
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