Bottoms-Optional Pictorials – ‘Married to the Mob’ Spring 2010 Line Focuses on Tops (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Clothing label Married to the Mob had me married to my monitor for quite some time with the photos of their Spring 2010 line. In this bottom-optional pictorial, the models do their best to keep you looking…

Kids as Toys – Surprisingly, the Life Like Doll is Actually Alive (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This one truly freaks me out. This little girl from China looks so much like a doll that part of me still doesn’t believe she actually is a real person. The pictures suggest that this kid spends a lot…

February 2010 newspaper ABCs at a glance

LONDON – February proved a mixed month for the UK’s national newspapers, with The Guardian slipping below 300,000 copies while the tabloids benefited from the inability of footballers being able to keep it in their pants.

Amnesty enlists celebrities for maternity health call

LONDON – Keira Knightley, Annie Lennox and Beverley Knight are among celebrities calling on the Government to make global maternal and newborn health a priority, as part of a campaign by Amnesty International.

Creepy Cut Pastetography – Taiyo Onorato Nico Kreps’ Freaky Original Photos (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well three of the words Taiyo Onorato and Nico Kreps picture will cause you to say are WTF! The photography duo cut and paste some of the strangest images…

NEWSPAPER ABCs: Observer leads falls in Sunday newspapers

LONDON – All national Sunday newspapers lost circulation between February 2009 and February 2010, with The Observer down 20.4%, a new low despite its relaunch late in the month, according to the latest ABC figures.

NEWSPAPER ABCs: Daily Mirror benefits from ‘infidelity month’

LONDON – The Daily Mirror recorded its first monthly uplift in circulation in half a year, as the nation’s red-tops benefited from a number of titillating football and celebrity stories in February.

NEWSPAPER ABCs: Sex, style and fashion helps Standard rise to the occasion

LONDON – Alexander Lebedev’s London Evening Standard has posted an “average net circulation” of 610,226 for February, the highest known distribution in the newspaper’s 180 year history.

ITV1 HD channel to launch on 2 April

LONDON – ITV will launch its first high definition channel, ITV1 HD, on 2 April on all major distribution platforms ahead of the 2010 World Cup.

The UK’s oldest women’s weekly to star in C4 documentary

LONDON – The Lady, the 125-year-old women’s weekly, is the subject of a new Channel 4 documentary called ‘The Lady and the Revamp’.

British Airways cabin crew to strike this month

LONDON – British Airways cabin crew have voted in favour of a three-day strike from 20 March, followed by a four-day strike set to go ahead from 27 March.

Rise in newspaper ads boosts sector at start of 2010

LONDON – National newspapers are showing early signs of an advertising recovery at the start of the year, with a raft of titles upping their volume of ads from December to January 2010.

Paper Round (12 March) – a look at the day’s newspapers

LONDON – The national quality and tabloid newspapers run with an unsual array of different lead stories today, with all resorting to core readership fodder following the lack of any clear agenda-setting news.

Psion appoints MRM London to handle integrated ad account

LONDON – Psion, the handheld computing company, has appointed MRM London to handle its pan-European integrated advertising and digital search strategy.

ITV1 leads ratings with 3.9 million audience

LONDON – ‘The Bill’ stood tall in last night’s TV ratings with 3.9 million viewers, just ahead of BBC One’s ‘Cars, Cops and Criminals’, according to unofficial overnight figures.

British Gas sponsors Absolute Radio’s podcasts and mobile apps

LONDON – British Gas has signed a deal to be the first sponsor of Absolute Radio’s podcast and mobile application for four weeks from next Monday (15 March).

Mobiliserunami.com tentative virale ridicule UMP Xavier Bertrand

L’UMP lance un site mobiliserunami.com pour mobiliser à aller aux urnes des régionales.

Le site reprend le concept de la personnalisation de video avec images et noms pour tenter de viraliser l’appel aux élections.

Xavier Bertrand fait un mini discours d’appel aux urnes pour les régionales[…]

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Brand and production company Blender57 launches in Amsterdam

LONDON – Colin Lyon, the senior vice president for merchandising for the Global Brands Group, is launching a brand and product creation company based in Amsterdam.

Amy Winehouse designs collection for Fred Perry

LONDON – Fred Perry, the sports label favoured by mods, rude boys and Northern Soul fans, has collaborated on a new collection with soul singer Amy Winehouse.