Aug
18
Yell approaches brands for directory ads
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Yell is to let brands book advertising in the preface section of all its UK local printed directories for the first time.
Aug
18
Peter Andre’s ITV2 show outshines Channel 4 and BBC Two
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – ITV2 scored 1.7m viewers last night with the start of its reality TV series following Peter Andre after his split from wife Katie Price, according to unofficial overnight figures.
Aug
18
Friends Reunited allows users to create personalised URLs
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Friends Reunited has launched a function whereby members can choose their own URL and link it to their profile page.
Aug
18
Branded discount vouchers on the rise for bargain-hunting consumers
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Web searches for discount vouchers have increased nearly 50% over the past year as consumers research purchases of everything from restaurants to clothing.
Aug
18
Cheapflights appoints Meredith Hanrahan as CMO
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Travel price comparison website Cheapflights has appointed Meredith Hanrahan to the newly-created role of chief marketing officer.
Aug
18
Loyalty cards face a struggle in an era of price discounting
Posted in: UncategorizedWith supermarket discount wars raging have loyalty schemes have lost their lustre?
Aug
18
Hoberman and Birch back UK Twitter start-up
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – TweetDeck, the app based on social media craze Twitter, has received £1.2 million of venture capital funding from Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman and Bebo founder Michael Birch.
Aug
18
Visit London and I Love NY to promote each other
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Visit London is to tie-up with its corresponding body in New York to help arrest a decline in visitor numbers from the US.
Aug
18
Labour makes Kerry McCarthy Twitter tsar
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Labour MP Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, has been named as Labour’s new media campaigns spokesperson, responsible for improving the party’s use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
Aug
18
Age Concern and Help the Aged appoints Karmarama and Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Merged charity Age Concern and Help the Aged has appointed Karmarama and Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw to jointly handle its creative account, edging out Elvis in a final show-down.
Aug
18
Five bucks trend by raising its share of commercial impacts
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Five was the only terrestrial commercial broadcaster to increase its share of commercial impacts in July, boosting its reach of all adults by 4% compared with the same period in 2008, to 8.41%.
Aug
18
Lichtfaktor vs Optix
Posted in: UncategorizedLe célèbre collectif Lichtfaktor, spécialiste en light-painting, revient cette fois-ci pour des performances live en collaboration avec le collectif Optix. Une technologie impressionnante présentée dans ce teaser vidéo à découvrir dans la suite.
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Aug
18
Publicis scoops global Beck’s ad business
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Anheuser-Busch InBev has consolidated the global advertising account for its Beck’s beer brand into Publicis.
Aug
18
Lee appointed Stardoll agency sales manager
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Stardoll Network, the youth-oriented social networking website, has appointed Yvette Lee agency sales manager.
Aug
18
DSGi promotes Niall O’Keefe to head group’s marketing
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – PC World marketing director Niall O’Keefe has been promoted to oversee all marketing for the DSGi group following the departure of Anna Burleigh, marketing director of Currys and Dixons.co.uk.
Aug
18
Clacksons snaps up regional deals from failed sales house
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Regional sales house Clacksons has picked up a clutch of contracts from the Regional Advertising Company, the national sales house for regional publishers that went into liquidation last month.
Aug
18
Celebrity Sell Out: Ozzy Osbourne in Samsung handset ads
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Ozzy Osbourne is appearing in a US ad campaign for Samsung’s Solstice mobile handset.
Aug
18
Pay what you want for Championship Manager 2010
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Games developer Eidos has launched a “pay what you want” promotion for the digital download of the latest version of its PC football game ‘Championship Manager’, with the price starting at £2.51.
Aug
18
Sally Oldham takes Welsh job
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Global Radio has appointed the former group managing director of Capital Radio, Sally Oldham, as managing director of Welsh radio station Red Dragon.
Aug
18
Reader’s Digest to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Reader’s Digest magazines will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US in a bid to erase up to 75% of its debt.
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