Boots tops Christmas TV ad poll

LONDON – Boots’ “Here Come the Girls” Christmas TV ad is the most successful ad this holiday season, according to research by TNS.

ANALYSIS: Online Retail – Cashing in on Christmas

Online retailers are shamelessly exploiting their ability to snare consumers on Christmas Day. Revolution finds out what brands are doing to part people with their cash on the most important day in the festive calendar.

Marks & Spencer Christmas ad cleared of sexism

LONDON – Marks and Spencer has been cleared of sexism in its Christmas ad following 100 complaints from viewers.

Universal Music appoints MediaCom to £100m pan European media

LONDON – MediaCom has won Universal Music’s £100 million media planning and buying account across Europe after a year-long review.

Boots’ festive ad rated most motivational

LONDON – Boots’ festive TV campaign, featuring the song ‘Here Come the Girls’, is the most motivational Christmas retail ad, according to research by analyst TNS.

‘Commercialisation of childhood’ report could lead to ad lessons in school

LONDON – The Government is considering educating all schoolchildren in media literacy following the publication of a report about the impact of commercial messages on children.

Final Celebrity Big Brother broadcast date announced

LONDON – The opening night of the seventh and final series of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, sponsored by bed retailer Dreams, will air on Sunday 3 January.

Publicis staff provide X-Factor in Christmas video

LONDON – The X-Factor might be over for another year, but Publicis London staff have gallantly stepped into the breach to provide some pop entertainment for the festive season.

MGM and Sky form JV for HD film channel launch

LONDON – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and BSkyB have launched a new channel called MGM HD devoted exclusively to the delivery of films in high definition.

‘Get a new agency Asda’ advises Sainsbury’s marketing chief

LONDON – Sainsbury’s customer director Gywn Burr has advised Asda to get a new advertising agency following its decision to rip off an old Sainbury’s tagline.

ZDF Interrupt

Une brillante idée pour la chaîne de télévision allemande ZDF, avec cet affichage très réussi et construit en plusieurs panneaux extérieurs. La baseline est simple “Vos films érotiques sans interruption”. Le tout par l’agence Kolle Rebbe Hamburg, et le photographe Marcel Schaar?.



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DMG’s Ben Langdon: 20:20 London gives us creative ‘sex appeal’

LONDON – Ben Langdon, the former Euro RSCG chief who built Digital Marketing Group by buying several regional agencies, tells Brand Republic why DMG is paying £1.5m for London-based agency 20:20.

Bus shelter advertising with steaming coffee

A good ambient media campaign for the winter to promote coffee when you’re really cold while waiting for the bus. Advertiser: McDonald’s Agency: Cossette, Vancouver, Canada Creative Directors: Rob Sweetman, Bryan Collins Art Director: Rob Sweetman Copywriter: Bryan Collins Producer: Wendy […]

Mastercom in the top 100 blog marketing by AdAge

This blog Mastercom has just reached the top 100 marketing blog in the world ranked by AdAge power 150.

Exhibition tip – Huang Yong Ping at Galerie Kamel Mennour

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A White Elephant is shedding its skin only to reveal an even older, uneven skin underneath continue

Citro?n: Cornering lights

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“Cornering lights. Now in many Citro?n models.”

Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG, Duesseldorf, Germany
Creative Directors: Felix Glauner, Martin Breuer, Martin Venn
Copywriter: Heiner Krauss
Art Director: Ingmar Krannich
Graphic Design: Siegfried Diersch

Da série “Os piores comerciais do mundo”: SBP no zoológico

O SBP, tradicional inseticida da Reckitt Benckiser, tem uma longa reputação de comerciais bisonhos. Tudo bem, deve ser um direito desses produtos domésticos colocar no ar tantas criações ruins. Algum tipo de regulamentação do CONAR, por exemplo, certamente permite que coisas assim saiam da gaveta.

Porém, esse recente filme da marca me faz perder a vontade de viver a cada vez que é exibido na TV. Assista e pense bem, Deus deve matar um gatinho pra cada ser humano que passa vergonha assistindo esses 30 segundos.

Perto disso, aquela maravilha de comercial do Super Timor é Grand Prix em Cannes.

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Advertising Agency: The Classic Partnership Advertising, Dubai
Chief Creative Officer: John Mani, Vitthal Deshmukh
Creative Director: Alok Gadkar
Copywriter: John Mani
Art Director: Alok Gadkar

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Tiger Bite: Risk-Management Firm Fails to See Risks in Investment

If only the $23 billion consulting giant could have brought in outside help to help it better manage the risks involved with putting its entire brand in, um, bed with a single celebrity. Surely there must be a "risk management" expert out there it could have hired.

What Google Wants With Its Own Phone: Control

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — With all the attention Google's plan to launch its own phone is receiving, a sensible question remains: Why, when it makes billions off the high-margin business of search and online advertising, would it get its hands dirty launching a mobile handset?