LONDON – Virgin Media has selected a shortlist of eight digital agencies to pitch for its online marketing strategy across all Virgin Media products including broadband and mobile.
LONDON – Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, has turned down a role on the News Corporation board of directors citing a conflict of interest with her UK production company Shine.
LONDON – Electrical appliances manufacturer Kenwood is launching a national press campaign for its food blenders to capitalise on the growing number of people cooking at home to beat the credit crunch.
LONDON – Tate & Lyle has appointed digital agency Maynard Malone to its marketing roster as it bolsters its digital communications activity around Fairtrade.
LONDON – ITV’s suggestion to Government of a merger with Channel 4 and Five was accompanied by another proposal that would take C4 out of the TV advertising market.
LONDON – The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to halve its funding of British sport by the end of 2010 as a result of the global economic crisis.
LONDON – The relaunch of 80s chocolate brand Wispa has boosted Cadbury’s UK sales.
LONDON – Supermarkets and high-street chains, headed by Marks & Spencer, handed out 3.5bn fewer plastic bags last year under a voluntary scheme, which has succeeded in heading off a government ban on free carrier bags.
CollegeClickTV.com hopes to encourage more kids to get a college education — and possibly get into football? — by broadcasting soothing pro-college messages, spoken by President Obama, on network TV.
At left is the decidedly safe top corner of “Flesh For Fantasy (Girl #5)”, an art print with an anatomical surprise smack-dab in the middle. See the whole thing here (N!S!F!W!). It’s part of an exhibit called Talk Dirty…
Not much to see here, just more bus handle advertising.
(TrendHunter.com) Adult film enterprise Vivid Entertainment has a way for Nadya Suleman to solve her financial woes–sign on the dotted line. They’ve offered the vilified mother of octuplets a $1 million deal for a hardcore…
OLSON/Minneapolis promoted NSF International, a certification company that certifies things like bottled water and appliances, by depicting tiny laborers working tirelessly around your kitchen gear.
LONDON – Diageo is holding a review of its global search marketing agency arrangements as it looks to ramp up its search activity.
LONDON – Starcom MediaVest Group has won the consolidated global media planning and buying account for BlackBerry, following a pitch against Manning Gottlieb OMD.
LONDON – Lastminute.com will this weekend run three ads consecutively on ITV, Channel 4 and Five in what it is calling a “Mexican wave” of advertising.
LONDON – Britvic, the soft drinks company, is reviewing its £9 million media planning and buying account.
LONDON – MPs are urging the Government to end Google’s domination of the online search advertising market.
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