Strictly Come Dancing Tour hunts for lead sponsor

LONDON – Stage Entertainment has kicked off the search for its first ever lead sponsor for the live arena version of hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing.

Revolution’s top ten tweeters #14

LONDON – Bored of Twitter yet? Looking for decent people to follow? If you answered yes to either, help is at hand in the form of Revolution’s top ten tweeters. In the true spirit of Follow Friday we offer you the chance to get to know people you don’t.

Dulux drops Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO after 13 years

LONDON – Dulux has dropped its advertising agency of 13 years, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO.

Windows 7 snapped up much faster than Vista

NEW YORK – Windows 7 may have been promoted with one of the worst viral videos of all time, but sales of Microsoft’s new operating system have broken records.

Stewie, the baby from Family guy, is on twitter

Stewie, the mean baby in Family guy, is tweeting on his laptop! Advertiser: Windows 7

Orange expands ad network to Americas clients

NEW YORK – Orange has extended its online sales offering to the US and Latin America, providing access to 21m users of a number of Hispanic websites, including ElMundo.com.

Martin Sorrell: Newspaper/Magazine Contraction Must Continue


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — WPP Chief Executive Martin Sorrell not only thinks the contraction of the newspaper and magazine industry will continue, but that it needs to continue. In keynote remarks that opened this week's Ad-Tech in New York, Mr. Sorrell cited the over-capacity of supply and inventory as a major problem holding back the re-stabilization of the media business. He also predicted that ad agencies would be getting "very much more involved" in the development of content and that the lines between advertising and editorial are going to get "much more blurred" than they already are today.

And in the real world….Saatchi & Saatchi, Unilever, Cadbury, Bank of England, Barack Obama, GM and Vauxhall

Today’s round-up of the best business stories

Youth flock to Twitter as Facebook users start to show their age

NEW YORK – A US survey shows Facebook users are getting older and despite previous reports to the contrary younger users are fast adopting Twitter and helping to fuel its growth.

Twitter begins to make ‘retweeting’ a formal part of site

LONDON – The Twitter community’s practice of retweeting fellow users’ messages is to be formally incorporated in to the site’s design, along with the ability for users to track how many times a tweet is repeated by others.

Global revenues slump at CBS Outdoor

LONDON – CBS Outdoor’s European and Asian revenues plunged by over a quarter in Q3 to $144.6m.

RDF forms new commercial and digital division

LONDON – RDF Media Group, an independent television production company, has launched a new commercial and digital division, RDF Contact, ahead of a concerted push into advertiser-funded programming.

Peugeot’s multi-tasking game gathers phone numbers

LONDON – Euro RSCG 4D Digital has created a game challenging people to multi-task on their computer and phone as part of a push to launch the Peugeot 3008 Crossover.

AICP Southwest Awards

Une réalisation du studio Corgan Media Lab pour la remise de prix du AICP Southwest. Un générique basé sur l’univers de la nature, afin de célébrer les publicités les plus réussies et produites durant l’année. Une vidéo à découvrir dans la suite.



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NatMags to launch Company magazine spin-off

LONDON – NatMags is to launch a stand-alone style magazine, called The High Street Edit.

Augmented reality glasses offer immediate translation

LONDON – Augmented reality glasses have been developed, projecting real-time language translation directly into people’s eyes, Terminator style.

Simonseeks takes top prize at The Good Web Guide awards

LONDON – Simonseeks.com, which collects travel reviews written by the public, has won Website of the Year at The Good Web Guide’s inaugural awards.

Competition regulators may investigate News Corp’s discussions over web charges

LONDON – Rupert Murdoch’s plans to talk to other media organisations about the best way to introduce web charging could breach anti-trust regulations, competition law specialists have warned.

News Corp’s FX channel to promote male breast cancer campaign

LONDON – Breakthrough Breast Cancer is to sponsor Nip Tuck to coincide with a male breast cancer storyline, after being donated space by News Corp-owned TV channel FX.

Dulux ends 13-year relationship with Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO

LONDON – Dulux has ended its 13-year relationship with Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO after shortlisting DDB and Euro RSCG to pitch for its advertising account.