Bauer revamps Pop magazine

LONDON – Bauer Media’s biannual style magazine, Pop, has been revamped, with the new-look title debuting with two different covers designed by artist Damien Hirst.

Freeview launches £4m TV ad campaign

LONDON – Freeview, the digital terrestrial TV service, has unveiled its latest £4m national and regional TV campaign, featuring British TV talent from across BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

US consumer groups urge government to curb behavioural targeting

NEW YORK – Consumers’ rights advocates are to recommend how the US government can better regulate behavioural targeting online as part of an attempt to curb the amount of information gathered about web users.

Havas UK revenue falls 15% in poorly performing market

LONDON – Havas’ UK revenue declined 15% year on year in the second quarter of 2009, to €41m (£36m), as the company’s worldwide revenue fell 9.8% to €375m (£331m).

Havas revenues tumble

LONDON – Havas has suffered a 13.1 per cent drop in operational income for the first six months of the year to €71 million.

Man dies in Unilever-backed branded content TV show

LONDON – A man has drowned while taking part in a Unilever-funded reality TV show.

Kaushik Chakravorty | photography

 Kaushik

Kaushik, is a Bombay based photographer, who has a decade’s experience in photography. He began his photography career as a writer/photographer and later branched out on his own. He now works with corporate clients and advertising agencies. His long cherished dream is however to explore photography as an Art form.
Why are you a photographer?
Photography is an opportunity to see things differently. To hold moments. I like to see things differently. My parents too had a big role to play in my choice of career.
My father, who maintained a  strict veneer thanks to a military mindset, had a sensitive side that he passed on to me. I remember once when I was very young and strolling with him in a garden, he pointed to a leaf high above and  said, “even leaves have eyes.” I took his word for it. I think it since then I have been observing things very differently.
My mother being a trained classical singer, I was  introduced to music rather subconsciously. Music being a regular thing in our household a sense of rhythm was infused into me.
Balance, rhythms, aesthetics, space, repetitions, flow, simplicity and an element of surprise are few of the very important senses in photography, like in life. How you amalgamate them, is what its all about. That’s why I am a photographer.

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Blog – The Devil’s Advocate. Broadband threat to Bovril

LONDON – According to The Guardian 81% of people working in the West Midlands would up and leave if their job permitted – the idea being that universal broadband might one day make such a Brummie exodus possible – with the East Midlands faring almost as badly in the reported popularity stakes amongst its discontented denizens.

WWF Tsunami

Après le ton de l’humour avec WWF Emergency, voici une nouvelle campagne choc pour WWF Brasil, avec la baseline “Le tsunami a tué 100 fois plus de personnes que le 11 septembre. Notre planète est puissante. Respectez et préservez là”. Une publicité réalisée par l’agence DBB.



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Voir en grand format.

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Celebrities get talking in new social work campaign

LONDON – Goldie, Gavin and Stacy’s Joanna Page, Sadie Frost and ex-EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan star in a new government-backed campaign to tackle the social work sector identity crisis.

Guide Dogs in “ten-fold boost” of online fundraising activity

LONDON – Guide Dogs says it will boost its use of digital direct marketing “ten-fold” for supporter acquisition and retention activity.

Aspen Channels Great Depression For Skiers

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It may not be as thrilling as Steve’s AdTech booth babe pics, but this new campaign for the Aspen Skiing Co. that got sent in here seems to have an identity crisis. Maybe because the article is full of target-rich marketing speak. (Maybe because I’m also killing time until Steve’s pics get posted.)

Aspen Channels Great Depression For Skiers.

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It may not be as thrilling as Steve’s AdTech booth babe pics, but this new campaign for the Aspen Skiing Co. that got sent in here seems to have an identity crisis. Maybe because the article is full of target-rich marketing speak. (Maybe because I’m also killing time until Steve’s pics get posted.)

Robert Harwood-Matthews quits TBWA for PHD

LONDON – The Omnicom-owned media network PHD has appointed the former TBWA\Manchester chief executive Robert Harwood-Matthews as the executive vice-president of its PHD West operations and managing director of its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.

Nationwide uses bank statements to reduce direct-mail costs

LONDON – Nationwide Building Society is planning to include marketing messages on customer bank statements as part of a programme to reduce is direct-mail costs.

PR man who invented the direct mail opt-out concept dies

LONDON – John Jay Daly, a Washington PR man credited with inventing the idea that consumers could opt out of direct mail, has died aged 80 of heart disease.

Virgin Atlantic appoints Y&R to US ad account

NEW YORK – Virgin Atlantic, the global airline, has moved its US creative account into Young 8 Rubicam without a pitch.

Pollack becomes one of the UK’s best-selling fish species

LONDON – Pollack has entered Britain’s seafood top 10 after Sainsbury’s changed its name earlier this year.

Chrysler looks beyond BBDO for new global ad project

LONDON – US car manufacturer Chrysler is searching for ad agencies for new global marketing projects.

Direct marketing firms rated higher than Xerox, Starbucks and Ford in profitabilty rating top 500

LONDON – Dun 8 Bradstreet, Teradata, Equifax and Pitney Bowes have been ranked higher than household brand names Ford and Starbucks in the latest profitability ranking of public companies by credit rating firm Standard 8 Poors.