NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The New York Times Co. put its stake in the Boston Red Sox up for sale today as it reported a $57.8 million loss in 2008 and a fourth-quarter decline in even internet ad revenue.
It appears that Hyundai has made a last-minute substitution for the music of Yo-Yo Ma in its Super Bowl Spots: a newly composed track "FOL" by Smashing Pumpkins members.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast shut down Domino magazine today, giving up on a title that it was talking up just two weeks ago, when it appointed Senior VP Bill Wackermann to oversee the brand.
Advertising Agency: BBDO, Mexico
Executive Creative Director: Héctor Fernandez
Creative Director: Agustín Esteban
Art Director: Alex Galván
Copywriter: Daniel González Milán
LONDON – The BBC has retained the rights to air highlights of the Premier League until the end of the 2012/13 season.
Watching this commercial in which a piece of chewed slowly passes from one person to another while a soothing voice over talks about being a people person who likes all types of people and who takes everyone as the are without judgment leads one in several directions before it delivers its message.
LONDON – The Omnicom-owned Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO group, DDB London, and TBWA have made a number of redundancies in the UK.
LONDON – Ford has hired Elena Ford, the great, great granddaughter of Henry Ford, as director of global marketing, sales and service operations.
(TrendHunter.com) Popular underwear brand 2(x)ist shies away from the excessive use of sun we’ve been seeing in the Spring 2009 ads in their new campaign.
Even though the theme of the ad campaign is pool-party, the party…
LONDON – Google has suffered a setback in its move to monetise YouTube, with the departure of Jonathan Gillespie, head of YouTube UK, to GMG Radio.
LONDON – B&Q’s sponsorship of the new series of Grand Designs will launch tonight and run for the full 14-week series.
LONDON – Sony has revealed the moon landing in 1969 and the inauguration of Barack Obama to be our favourite memorable TV moments with a new survey to promote the launch of four new Bravia TVs.
LONDON – The School Food Trust charity’s Really Good School Dinner campaign has signed up 600 schools and received almost 10,000 pledges to donate 10p to the charity from school children.
LONDON – The UK TV viewing population watched 2.4 billion ads in 2008, an average of 42 per day, as commercial TV upped its share of all TV viewing to 63%.
LONDON – The UK Film Council has launched FindAnyFilm.com, a film search engine that will enable consumers to find out when, where and how a film is available in the UK across cinema, TV, DVD & Blu-ray sale or rental, download and streaming platforms.
LONDON – Bauer Consumer Media chief executive Paul Keenan is to step down as marketing chairman of The Periodical Publishers’ Association (PPA) after three years in the role.
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| THE ORIGINAL? The Yellow Pages – 2000 Source : Cannes Archive Online, Agency : Grey Advertising (Denmark) |
LESS ORIGINAL : AT&T Yellow Pages – 2007 Source : Adsoftheworld, Agency : IdeaCity Austin (USA) |
| Idea City : Une agence qui a un certain penchant pour l’imitation? |
LONDON – Orange has revamped its Orange Wednesdays film site, making it part of a film portal with a film finder and video content.
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