Google wins privacy case over Street View home image

NEW YORK – A judge has thrown out a privacy lawsuit against Google from a couple who were upset when their home appeared in its Street View maps feature.

Heavy discounting melts Thorntons’ profits

Thorntons’ profits have been severely affected by its discounting activity.

Creative industries to drive growth in UK economy

LONDON – Creative industries will drive the UK economy’s growth over the next five years, according to figures released today.

$10 Million Man to Launch New Travel Magazine


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — We may be suffering through what is possibly the worst economic crisis in the history of the modern magazine industry, but Greg Sullivan is not deterred. He is plowing $10 million of his own money into the fall launch of an ad-supported travel magazine called "Afar." Making his project all the more interesting is that he has no experience in publishing. He previously made a lot of money in the arcade game and car-rental businesses.

Reed Elsevier committed to sale of RBI

LONDON – Reed Elsevier has insisted it still plans to sell off Reed Business Information, its business-to-business arm, just months after pulling the division off the market, despite revealing its profits were down almost 40%.

What’s on TV launches mobile alert service

LONDON – What’s on TV has partnered with mobile entertainment specialist K2 Media to launch a free direct-to-consumer mobile service.

ITV sells 70% stake in JFMG to Arqiva for £1m

LONDON – ITV is continuing to sell off non-core assets, striking a deal to offload a 70% stake in spectrum management company JFMG to transmission outfit Arqiva for £1m in cash.

Duffy and ITV1 both winners as 5.2m tune into Brit Awards

LONDON – ITV1’s broadcast of the Brit Awards won over primetime viewers last night as 5.2m tuned in for a 21.6% audience share, beating BBC One documentary ‘Nature’s Great Events’, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Trinity Mirror redesigns ultra-local websites and revamps mobile

LONDON – Trinity Mirror has redesigned its 22 ultra-local sites in Teesside to integrate them with the main newspaper’s website and is about to begin the second phase of its mobile rollout.

Yahoo to launch new search ad platform

LONDON – Yahoo is to launch a new search-advertising platform that allows advertisers to add video, images and custom search boxes to their search ads.

Publicis enlists Lowe London’s Leathers as head of art

LONDON – Publicis has appointed Johnny Leathers, a creative group head at Lowe London, to the newly created role of the head of art.

HTC kicks off hunt for digital agency

LONDON – HTC, the touchscreen mobile phone manufacturer, is talking to agencies about its digital business.

TBWA lands EBLEX brief

TBWA\London has landed the advertising account for the English Beef & Lamb Executive following a two-way shoot-out.

T. Rowe Price Goes Granular to Illustrate Grand Plan

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The best investors are people that can see the big picture based on the little rivulets of action that trickle into it: hoarding licenses to all sans-serif typefaces, for example, right before Web 2.0 made Helvetica a star.

General Motors to sell its stake in Vauxhall

LONDON – General Motors is ready to sell stakes in its UK car brand Vauxhall and Germany’s Opel to alleviate its financial distress.

New York Post in race furore over monkey cartoon

LONDON – The New York Post has been accused by a prominent civil rights activist of using a satirical cartoon to portray Barack Obama as a monkey.

jetBlue Lays Claim to the Fallen-from-Gracers

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jetBlue’s released a big wordy poster, calling out all the guys that used to be too good to fly with others: C-suite execs, “Underwriters of Mortgage-Backed Securities, Former Treasury Secretaries,” et cetera, et cetera.

Yahoo! claims 25% click increase as it adds video to paid search results

LONDON – Yahoo! is to launch a new search advertising platform that shows video, images and custom search boxes within paid listings, which it claims has resulted in a major increase in click-through rates for advertisers.

Sale still preferred option as profits slip almost 40% at RBI

LONDON – Reed Elsevier has reported operating profits at its magazine publishing business, which it tried and failed to sell last year, down almost 40%.

Comedy Central: Action

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Advertising Agency: KemperTrautmann, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Director / Copywriter / Illustrator: Mathias Lamken
Art Directors: Mathias Lamken, Simon Jasper Philipp
Photographer: Karsten Wegener
Post production: Martina Huber
Graphics: Simon Jasper Philipp