LONDON – Yorkshire Bank has introduced a debit card for private banking clients decorated with artwork by landscape artist and Yorkshireman Ashley Jackson to commemorate its 150th anniversary.
LONDON – Meteorite has made three new appointments across its creative and account handling departments after new business wins.
LONDON – Customer publisher PSP Rare has won a commission to create a special magazine to celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society.
NEW YORK – Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, has been depicted as ‘Napoleon’ by the New York Post in a report about WPP’s legal case against digital ad agency Spot Runner.
NEW YORK – Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, has been depicted as ‘Napoleon’ by the New York Post in a report about WPP’s legal case against digital ad agency Spot Runner for allegedly selling stock without telling other shareholders.
LONDON – Coffee brand Kenco is to launch its £7.5m Eco Refill sustainable packaging campaign, which promotes its refillable packs, which it says use 97% less packaging than its glass jars.
LONDON – Vodafone has unveiled the first of its new UK TV ads using the ‘Power to you’ tagline.
LONDON – Google has triggered an online stampede of people wanting to trial Google Wave, its in-development tool combining email, instant messaging and wiki-style editing, by opening it up to 100,000 people today.
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LONDON – Cinema chain Cineworld has launched a viral game featuring Google Maps, in which people will compete to show how popular they are to promote Disney Pixar’s 3D film ‘Up’.
LONDON – Today the UK officially became the world’s first major economy where marketers spend more online than they do on TV. You remember TV? Once upon a time it was the be the be-all-and-end-all of advertising.
LONDON – The Marketing Communication Consultants Association (MCCA) has commissioned a set of reverse-clean graffiti art works outside brand HQs to encourage entries for The Best Awards.
A new survey of the charity sector highlights bad practice in email marketing. A mere 17 per cent use the personal data they collected to personalise their regular email messages. However a few charities, including NSPCC, get it right.
LONDON – Noel Gallagher will dress up as a Star Trek character, alongside David Beckham, in a new ad for Adidas, according to reports.
LONDON – Spending on internet advertising in Britain grew 4.6 percent in the first half of 2009, outperforming the wider ad sector, which slumped 17 percent, and making it the country’s biggest ad medium ahead of TV.
The Campaign will be supported through independent artists around the globe interpreting the Blend the World message in their own unique styles. In a video produced by Blend, the company will document the artists work in ‘hot spots’ across the world such as Baghdad, Teheran, Afghanistan and […]
LONDON – Online ad spend has overtaken TV for the first time, accounting for 23.5% in the first half of 2009.
LONDON – The Duke of Edinburgh has said that supermarkets and big retail centres in the countryside are threatening traditional British villages.
LONDON – Freeview has been criticised for its lack of communication over the need for consumers to retune their set-top boxes.
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