Jam hires Keddie as head of video

LONDON – Digital creative agency Jam has appointed Lisa Keddie in the new role of head of video.

Viewers flock to ITV1’s National Television Awards

LONDON – ITV1’s National Television Awards, which saw the commercial broadcaster winning more gongs than the BBC, was watched by 7.4 million viewers last night.

Starcom’s Jacob takes new role in SMG rejig

Iain Jacob, the chief executive of Starcom MediaVest EMEA, is taking on the new role of president global
innovation, as part of a major global reorganisation of the SMG network.

MEC Manchester scoops £4m Shearings media business

LONDON – Shearings Group, the hotels and holidays operator, has appointed Mediaedge:cia Manchester to its consolidated £4 million media planning and buying account.

Oxford Media Convention: The UK’s digital industries require new busines models, says digital minister

LONDON – For the digital industries to flourish they must develop new business models and overcome the challenges of broadband access and intellectual property, Stephen Timms, minister for Digital Britain, said today.

Five Mobile Trends for 2010

Advertising is not what it was 10 years ago. The past decade has seen the advent of social computing and mobile technology, two forces that changed the game forever. What will the future hold? On our respective blogs, MobileBehavior and Organic, have been tracking developments in mobile that will affect advertising in 2010 and beyond. From point-of-sale to out-of-home, here are the top five ways we see the device formerly known as a phone changing the game this year.

Vanishing Point

Un film réalisé par le créatif japonais Takuya Hosogane sur une musique de l’artiste Cubesato et son titre : Meine Meinung. Un élégant choix de couleurs et de style pour ce travail entièrement conçu sous AfterEffects et Cinema 4D.



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(TrendHunter.com) The Yona lounge chair is a piece of furniture that you expect to fall flat. This seat is designed to collapse into a floral-shaped carpet. Made out of upholstered foam layers, fabric, velcro and a polypropene…

Digital UK moves £4m advertising account from AMV BBDO to DLKW

LONDON – Digital UK, the organisation responsible for handling the switchover from analogue to digital TV, has appointed Delaney Lund Knox Warren to its £4m advertising account.

DMGT buys 50% stake in Globrix

LONDON – Daily Mail & General Trust’s digital unit, A&N Media, has purchased a 50% stake in the property search engine Globrix.

Digital UK moves £4 million advertising account from AMV BBDO to DLKW

LONDON – Digital UK, the organisation responsible for handling the switchover from analogue to digital TV, has appointed Delaney Lund Knox Warren to its £4 million advertising account.

Labour creates first iPhone app to rally support

LONDON – The Labour Party is set to launch its first ever iPhone app to help canvassers rally support in the run-up to the general election.

Leggy Reflectography – The Angie Choi ‘Fool’s Gold’ Images Offer Multiple Takes on Consumerism (GALLERY)

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Casa Do Menor: Hands

“Certain things hang on forever. Set the kids free from abuse and violence.”

Advertising Agency: Mccann Erickson, Milan, Italy
Executive Creative Director: Marco Cremona, Gaetano Del Pizzo
Copywriter: Valerio Millefoglie
Art Director: Federico Fanti
Photographer: Akim Lipphot
Postproduction: The Scope

Andy Duncan calls for relaxing of TV advertising restrictions

LONDON – Broadcasting regulator Ofcom should relax advertising timing restrictions for terrestrial TV, according to Andy Duncan, the former chief executive of Channel 4.

Saint@RKCR/Y&R lands Kopparberg

LONDON – Cider of Sweden has appointed Saint@RKCR/Y&R to work on the advertising for its Kopparberg cider brand.

Westfield Group kicks off advertising review

LONDON – The Westfield Group has called a review of the advertising account for its two London shopping centres – Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City, which is due to open in 2011.

Jaume and Aldridge named ECDs at Engine

LONDON – Leon Jaume, the executive creative director of WCRS, and Steve Aldridge, the creative partner at Partners Andrews Aldridge, have been made executive creative directors of The Engine Group.

BBC and production houses wrangle over Red Bee deal

LONDON – A row has broken out between London’s production industry and the BBC over an exclusive agreement the broadcaster has with Red Bee Media to produce its advertising.

Russell Hopson moves up in RKCR/Y&R restructure

LONDON – Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R has restructured its senior management line-up in an effort to integrate its group offering.