Unanimis buys Global Direct

LONDON – Digital agency Unanimis has acquired affiliate network Global Direct Media for an undisclosed sum, as part of the company’s global expansion plans.

AMV wins £10 million child maintenance account

LONDON – The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has appointed Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO to handle its £10 million advertising account.

VIDEO: How Marketers Get It Wrong With Wikis


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Although his nonprofit Wikipedia made him best known as the selfless guru of wisdom-of-the-crowd publishing, Jimmy Wales has a second site designed to make as much money as possible. Called Wikia.com, it has become a sprawling universe of thousands of wikis on nearly every imaginable subject. It now logs more than 500 million page views a month and has growing stable of blue-chip advertisers. Many marketers have begun to explore wikis as vehicles for product promotion. But, as Mr. Wales explains in this 10-minute interview with Ad Age digital editor Abbey Klaassen, several deeply ingrained flaws in their thinking often cause their wikis to fail.

Keane-Dawson joins Steak as UK MD

LONDON – Mary Keane-Dawson, the former chief marketing officer at GlobalCast Networks, has joined the search marketing agency Steak as its UK managing director.

Video sur l’ejaculation precoce des jeunes adolescents

Une video sur un jeune et l’ejaculation precoce avec on sex prime!

advertiser: INPES

Video sur la masturbation des filles adolescentes

Une video sur la masturbation des filles avec on sex prime!

advertiser: INPES

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“Help him find the way out.”

Some kick ass lateral thinking if you ask me… along with some OK illustrations which I don’t really mind at all. The concept rocks!

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Bogotá, Colombia
Creative Director: Francisco Castillo
Copywriter: Daniel Payán
Illustrator: Rafael Fornaris
Published: October 2008

Los Penetrados, Santiago Sierras political porn photography

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Couples are geometrically arranged into compositions of up to 110 bodies with two colours. The Acts feature the various possible combinations of penetrator / penetrated: white man-white woman, white man-white man, white man-black woman, white man-black man, black man-black woman, black man-black man, black man-white woman, black man-white man continue

Magazine publishers to disclose monthly circulation figures

LONDON – Bauer Consumer Media, IPC Media, Condé Nast, BBC Magazines and NatMags are to publish monthly breakdowns of their circulation figures.

Carat and Starcom vie for £80m InterContinental Hotel account

LONDON – Carat and Starcom are set to go head to head in a final pitch for the consolidated £80m InterContinental Hotel media account at the end of the month.

MPs fail to get onboard with social media

LONDON – Few MPs use social media or have their own blogs, according to a new report, that says they use internet too much to inform and not enough to talk to constituents.

Play.com tops customer satisfaction index as Somerfield languishes

LONDON – Play.com has bolstered its reputation for good service by topping a customer satisfaction index for retailers, which highlighted the appeal of online shopping.

HP CMO Strategy: ‘Democratize Print Publishing’


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Declaring his company's intent to "democratize print publishing," Hewlett-Packard's CMO heavily hyped the new MagCloud.com site to the Interactive Advertising Bureau conference in Orlando, Fla. In a keynote that promoted several of HP's recently launched offerings, Michael Mendenhall appeared to put special emphasis on the game-changing potential of MagCloud. The site enables anyone to produce a full-color, ad-supported print magazine and make it available — via on-demand printing and an e-commerce system — to anyone else.

De Lijn

a new campaign for “De Lijn”, the Flemish public transport company, to emphasize its mission: to be the smartest way to travel throughout Flanders.

The campaign builds on the universal insight that travelling in groups has its advantages.

Credits:
Agency: Duval Guillaume Brussels
Creative Director: Peter Ampe, Bottez Katrien
Creation: Hans Kerkhoff, Raoul Maris
TV Producer: Emily Rammant, Marc Van Buggenhout
Production Company: Creative Conspiracy
Director: Guionne Leroy
Producer: Luc Van Driessche

Huffington Post rumoured to be making bid for Outside.in

NEW YORK – The Huffington Post is rumoured to buy local news aggregator Outside.in from founder Steven Johnson following its $25m of funding from a Silicon Valley investment fund at the end of last year.

Illegal music downloaders undeterred by music industry threats

LONDON – Nearly half (46%) of all online consumers use peer-to-peer (P2P) download websites such as BitTorrent and Limewire, according to research released by ISP Tiscali.

Sportech launches football pools online community

LONDON – Sportech has strengthened its social betting offering with the launch of an online gaming and social community called Mini Leagues for online players of its Football Pools.

Fjord hires Hoffman for business development director role

LONDON – Digital design consultancy Fjord has appointed Joachim Hoffman to the position of business development director.

Law & Order UK asserts control of Monday night

LONDON – ITV1 can breathe a sigh of relief after its NBC co-production ‘Law & Order: UK’ debuted with a healthy 6.4m viewers and a 26.2% share, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Ashton Tweets, S/Urge, Libel Revisited and the ow.ly-Twitter Hustle

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– zOMG: grainy shots of Ashton and Demi!