LONDON – Twitter has been hit by a computer worm which compromised user accounts and forced the micro-blogging company to delete almost 10,000 tweets that could have continued to spread the worm.
LONDON – Global supply chain recruitment specialist RK Supply Chain (RKSC) has revamped its brand identity.
Just 16 months after launching Enfatico to service the global Dell business, WPP has folded the start-up into Y&R Brands.
Retour sur le projet français de Digup Tv : revue documentaire en vidéo sur la création numérique. Des reportages sur des personnages reconnus comme Etienne Mineur, Mate Steinforth ou Pierre Magnol. Le tout réalisé par Cellules, studio de création interactives et audiovisuelles.
Extrait ci-dessus avec Florian Schmitt, directeur artistique de Hi-ReS.
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Advertising Agency: Y&R, Dubai, UAE
Executive Creative Director / Copywriter: Shahir Ahmed
Art Director: Dinesh Tharippa
Illustrator: Gitten Tom
LONDON – Universal Music Group is teaming with Google to launch a new ad-supported music and video online service, Vevo.
LONDON – ZenithOptimedia is predicting that worldwide advertising spend will fall 6.9% in 2009, taking the total spend for the year to £305bn.
LONDON – Capital FM is holding an open-air Summertime Ball five years after it dropped its Party in the Park.
LONDON – BMW has consolidated its £16 million UK media planning and buying account into Vizeum.
LONDON – WPP has folded its agency Enfatico, set up to service Dell globally, into its Y&R Brands division.
New York – Stokely-Van Camp, the PepsiCo-owned company that manufacturers Gatorade, is suing Coca-Cola in a trademark lawsuit over its Powerade ION4 sports drink advertising.
LONDON – Amazon has said that an internal cataloguing error lead to thousands of books written by gay authors, as well as titles relating to sexual health and erotica, being removed from its sales rankings.
London – Today’s round up of the biggest business stories.
LONDON – GMTV has promoted Simon Poole to the role of sales and marketing director, and has also awarded him with a seat on the company’s board of directors.
LONDON – The management buyout of Jazz FM, led by chief executive Richard Wheatly, has been confirmed.
Credits:
Client: Bajaj Home Appliances
Product: Bajaj Irons
Agency: Touchstone, Mumbai, India
Copywriter: Shoeb Shaikh
Art Director: Raju Gawde
Creative Director: Kailash Chaudhary & Aditya Upadhyaya
LONDON – Media spend in 2009 will contract by 6.9% globally and 8.7% in the UK, according to a gloomy forecast from ZenithOptimedia.
(TrendHunter.com) American Apparel loves fleshy young ads, and now American Apparel is turning to crowd sourcing to determine what the retailer will display on the front of its Harlem store.
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