Marketing from the heart: Kleenex enlists celebrities to show their emotional side

LONDON – Kleenex, the tissue brand, is launching a £2m TV and cinema campaign featuring celebrities including ex-England manager Sven Goran Eriksson showing their ’emotional side’.

Revlon repositions brand toward glamour to court youth market

LONDON – Revlon is repositioning its brand to increase its appeal to younger consumers.

InterContinental Hotel Group kicks off global ad review

LONDON – InterContinental Hotels Group is looking for an agency to handle the combined global advertising account for its Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands.

Advertising weak at FT but online subscriptions up 22%

LONDON – The Financial Times has experienced a “weak” third quarter for advertising but FT.com has increased its paid subscriber base by 22% in the past 12 months.

Arqiva appoints Vizeum to £5 million SeeSaw media account

LONDON – Vizeum has won the estimated £5 million media planning and buying account for SeeSaw, Arqiva’s upcoming video-on-demand service.

RSA to celebrate 300th by highlighting policy holders like Captain Cook and Charles Darwin

LONDON – RSA is to launch a marketing spectacular to celebrate the insurance brand’s 300th anniversary next year.

Gareth Helm exits snack start-up Bear to lead Mars petcare division

LONDON – Gareth Helm, the former marketing director at Innocent, is leaving his role at healthy snacking company Bear after just two months to take the top UK petcare marketing role at Mars.

InterContinental Hotels to pool ad tasks

LONDON – InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is reviewing its global ad agency arrangements and plans to move the combined account for its Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands into a single agency network.

Aleksandr meerkat doll to go on sale in Harrods

LONDON – Meerkat fans will be able to buy a toy doll version of the Comparethemarket star Aleksandr this Christmas.

Nigel Gilbert quits top role at Lloyds Banking Group

LONDON – Nigel Gilbert, marketing director at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), is to leave the company at the end of the year.

Creativi-tea Cup

Une nouvelle déclinaison originale et décalée autour de ce set de six mugs. Un jeu de mot avec le suffixe -tea, à propos des valeurs et de leurs définitions. Disponible en différentes versions et couleurs. Plus d’images à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.



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Marketing video: Telecoms round table

LONDON – The lack of loyalty to telecoms networks was top of the agenda when Marketing and Yahoo! hosted the latest in a series of round table discussions.

Round table report: Telecoms marketers discuss brand loyalty in a price-driven market

LONDON – Despite spending millions of pounds on advertising, mobile and broadband operators still suffer from low brand loyalty. Meanwhile, handset manufacturers are experiencing a significant power shift toward their brands, with Apple’s iPhone commanding an army of devoted fans.

YouTube rolls out keyword ad trial

LONDON – YouTube is trialling an auction-based advertising model that enables brands to target consumers with relevant online video ads.

NFU urges clarity in carbon labelling

LONDON – The president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called on retailers to develop a consistent, industry-wide carbon-labelling system for product packaging.

U2ube: Irish rock band to stream gigs online

LONDON – U2’s next gig will reach beyond the Rose Bowl stadium in California to an audience of millions around the world by being streamed live on YouTube, with accompanying Twitter feed.

Arqiva appoints Vizeum to handle £5m SeeSaw account

LONDON – Arqiva has appointed Vizeum to handle the estimated £5m media planning and buying account for SeeSaw, its soon-to-launch video-on-demand service.

Mirror Group calls a review of its £6.5m media account

LONDON – Mirror Group Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mirror, is to review its estimated £6.5m UK and Republic of Ireland media planning and buying account.

O2 Media expands sales team with four key appointments

O2 Media has boosted its sales team with four new hires, the first raft of key appointments following Shaun Gregory’s arrival as managing director of media in February from Blyk.

Venice Biennale: Pascale Marthine Tayou

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One of the most striking artworks at the Arsenale for me was Pascale Marthine Tayou’s installation ‘Human Being’ which fills in a gigantic room with a bric-a-brac of objects, furniture made of recycled material, colourful figures, videos and urban noises that re-creates the activity of that small village that we call our world continue