Hasta La Creative!

Here’s a weird one.

LONDON – The Evening Standard is poised to review its media planning and buying account, currently held by Starcom.

LONDON – Kwik Fit Insurance has appointed digital agency Greenlight to handle its search marketing account, following a pitch involving four undisclosed agencies.

With a supremely effective visual, this PSA for the United Nations World Food Program in which Sean Penn illustrates how, comparatively speaking, cheap it would be to feed every hungry school child for a year makes a powerful statement.

The demise of Kangaroo, the Evening Standard, Digital Britain and Premier League football rights are up for discussion with Media Week editor Steve Barrett, news editor Tristan O’Carroll and broadcast reporter Emma Barnett, in the Media Week podcast.

LONDON – OgilvyOne has appointed Charlie Wilson and Emma de la Fosse to the role of creative directors as part of a restructure of its creative department.

(TrendHunter.com) United Nude steals the legs out from under mid-century modern footwear with their sexy line of Eamz heels. They’re dramatic, obscurely referential and kind of improbable. Perfect for seducing the artsy-fartsy…

LONDON – Twentieth Century Fox has named ex-Channel 4 marketing executive Cameron Saunders as marketing director.

PARIS – Citroen is tomorrow unveiling a new logo and a new range of cars inspired by its iconic DS model, a move it hopes will tap into the public’s lust for nostalgia, impassion the car-buying public and boost ailing automotive sales.

LONDON – The deadline for the Clear Channel Outdoor Planning Awards, in association with Media Week, has been extended due to the adverse weather conditions to tomorrow, Thursday (5 February).