Hasta La Creative!

LONDON – Online gaming company Jackpot Joy has appointed start-up agency Campbell Lace Beta to handle its advertising account, following a pitch against Publicis London.

Hmm. So a Delta faucet that can be turned on by tapping the spout so you don’t get your dirty hands all over it? Brilliant, right?

LONDON – The Department for Children, Schools and Families has called a pitch to find a creative agency to develop a campaign promoting its Youth Alcohol Action Plan.

LONDON – The UK blog network Shiny Media has gone into administration, according to reports.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Is September now the cruelest month? It may very well be for fashion and beauty titles this year. The final tallies for those crucial issues are emerging — and for almost every one of the titles, results are terrible.

LONDON – Members of Parliament will be taking online questions today from the public for the first time through a new web service funded by the Ministry of Justic and 4iP, Channel 4’s innovation investment arm.

Here's something that I find rather fascinating in the summer of 2009: Magazines that actually continue to exist. I've been watching Complex, the music-inflected men's lifestyle magazine, with a certain fascination since its launch in 2002. Why does Complex still exist, even as the original urban-glossy brand Vibe has bit the dust, along with other music-focused titles, like Blender? For this latest installment of Dumenco's Media People, I spoke with Complex Media Publisher-CEO Rich Antoniello to find out the title's strategy.

A treat this delicious deserves an ad this good.

LONDON – Canadian ad group Cossette, which owns a number of UK agencies, has received a hostile C$82.7m (£45.7m) takeover bid from one of its founders.

A new viral campaign has been just seeded by The Viral Factory for Samsung Jet phone.  This eye-catching publicity stunt  took place at London’s Piccadilly Circus on June 22, 2009.  And the UFO played the lead…