LONDON – TweetDeck, the app based on social media craze Twitter, has received £1.2 million of venture capital funding from Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman and Bebo founder Michael Birch.
LONDON – Visit London is to tie-up with its corresponding body in New York to help arrest a decline in visitor numbers from the US.
LONDON – Labour MP Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, has been named as Labour’s new media campaigns spokesperson, responsible for improving the party’s use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
LONDON – Five was the only terrestrial commercial broadcaster to increase its share of commercial impacts in July, boosting its reach of all adults by 4% compared with the same period in 2008, to 8.41%.
LONDON – Merged charity Age Concern and Help the Aged has appointed Karmarama and Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw to jointly handle its creative account, edging out Elvis in a final show-down.
Le célèbre collectif Lichtfaktor, spécialiste en light-painting, revient cette fois-ci pour des performances live en collaboration avec le collectif Optix. Une technologie impressionnante présentée dans ce teaser vidéo à découvrir dans la suite.
LONDON – Stardoll Network, the youth-oriented social networking website, has appointed Yvette Lee agency sales manager.
LONDON – Anheuser-Busch InBev has consolidated the global advertising account for its Beck’s beer brand into Publicis.
LONDON – Regional sales house Clacksons has picked up a clutch of contracts from the Regional Advertising Company, the national sales house for regional publishers that went into liquidation last month.
LONDON – PC World marketing director Niall O’Keefe has been promoted to oversee all marketing for the DSGi group following the departure of Anna Burleigh, marketing director of Currys and Dixons.co.uk.
LONDON – Games developer Eidos has launched a “pay what you want” promotion for the digital download of the latest version of its PC football game ‘Championship Manager’, with the price starting at £2.51.
LONDON – Ozzy Osbourne is appearing in a US ad campaign for Samsung’s Solstice mobile handset.
LONDON – Global Radio has appointed the former group managing director of Capital Radio, Sally Oldham, as managing director of Welsh radio station Red Dragon.
LONDON – Reader’s Digest magazines will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US in a bid to erase up to 75% of its debt.
LONDON – O2 is launching an ad campaign for its new personal finance products on Thursday.
LONDON – GoCompare.com is launching its first multimillion-pound brand campaign as it looks to reclaim market share from Comparethemarket.com.
LONDON – LBi, the global digital marketing agency, has appointed client partner Judith Carr as the new managing director of its US operations.
LONDON – Iceland is set to retain its ad agency despite dumping Kerry Katona from its ads after she was secretly filmed sniffing cocaine.
Maximum Ride is a series about a group of children who can fly. To launch the latest book, we created a large ground decal that showed Aucklanders what it was like to stand on the edge of a building and jump.
Advertising Agency: Colenso BBDO, Auckland, New Zealand
Copywriters /art directors: Rebecca Johnson-Pond, Kimberley Ragan
Photography / Retouching: Kevin Hyde
Producer: Gabrielle Buckle
AM: Krystal Houghton
Art Director: Antonia Baker
Executive Creative Director: Nick Worthington
Design: Rebecca Johnson-Pond and Simon Redwood
The voice off really sounds a bit to animal for a sausage video ad. Advertiser: Mattessons Smoked Pork Sausage
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