LONDON – Virgin Media has appointed Cindy Rose, SVP managing director of Disney Interactive Media Group, as executive director of television from 1 November.
LONDON – EBay Advertising has appointed Rob Bassett to the new role of head of integrated partnerships.
LONDON – The Huffington Post is teaming up with Facebook to launch HuffPost Social News, a collaboration which connects readers to their Facebook friends who are also surfing the website.
LONDON – Incisive Media, the owner of magazines including Accountancy Age and Computing, is near to agreeing a debt-for-equity deal that would give 25% ownership of the firm to its management.
LONDON – The final episode of ‘Single Handed’, ITV1’s Sunday night police drama, went out on a low last night as it fell more than two million viewers behind BBC One’s ‘Rivers’, according to unofficial overnight figures.
LONDON – BSkyB has written to the BBC Trust to raise concerns over its investigation into Project Canvas, the planned VoD service on Freeview.
LONDON – Developers behind Yahoo!’s behavioural targeting technology have quietly launched a new ad network which combines social, behavioural, contextual, geographical and search data to serve the most appropriate ad.
LONDON – The Arctic Monkeys have launched their latest single through Oxfam shops.
LONDON – Creston plc, owner of integrated agency TMW and ad agency DLKW, reported a 6% decline in revenues in four months to end of July.
LONDON – Sage (UK) has handed its paid and natural search accounts to VCCP Search without a pitch.
LONDON – Insurance brand More Th>n has appointed Ian Hood to the role of head of e-business. He will report into More Th>n marketing director, Pete Markey.
The Government is launching a new TV ad tonight to highlight the perils of driving after drug taking.
LONDON – Sir Ian McKellen, BBC political editor Andrew Marr, actor Derek Jacobi and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes are lending their support to a charitable envelope auction mounted by DM technology vendor Pitney Bowes.
LONDON – Iceland is facing a customer backlash after a Sunday paper released a video of Kerry Katona, the star of its TV ads, apparently snorting cocaine.
LONDON – The government’s first national ad campaign to combat driving under the influence of drugs is breaking tonight before ITV1’s ‘Coronation Street’.
LONDON – Kerry Katona, the ex-Atomic Kitten singer, is reported to be facing the loss of her lucrative Iceland advertising deal following allegations of drug use in a Sunday newspaper.
De très beaux travaux sont à découvrir sur le site de Manifiesto Futura, un studio graphique indépendant composé de Vicky Gonzales et Ivan Garcia. De la création d’identité à la conception de brochures, ils sont parfaitement polyvalents et réalisent même les clichés de leurs créations.
LONDON – A new TV ad campaign launching tonight will warn of the dangers of driving after taking drugs.
A shocking video that makes quite bad advertising for Orange when the logo appears on the phone just before the crash. No idea who has done it but I guess it’s to prevent driver to use their phone while they are driving.
LONDON – BSkyB has written to the BBC Trust to express concerns over the proposed launch of internet TV service Project Canvas.
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