LONDON – Google Maps has launched an international initiative across several cities including London and New York, highlighting venues such as restaurants and clubs recommended by celebrities.
LONDON – Virgin Media has been pulled up by the Advertising Standards Authority for failure to update its customer database.
LONDON – Goodstuff, the communications planning specialists, has won Gamesys Group’s £5m integrated account for Jackpot Joy after successfully pitching in conjunction with new ad agency start-up Campbell Lace Beta.
LONDON – Nationwide Building Society has dealt another blow to Phorm, dropping the behavioural targeting firm from any future business plans.
LONDON – The creators of HubDub, the online news betting forum, have branched out into the US, launching FanDuel, a paid-for fantasy sports game for fans of Major League Baseball and the National Football League.
LONDON – Pre-Raphaelite artist drama ‘Desperate Romantics’ sucked up viewers at 9pm last night, but ITV1’s ‘Car Crime UK’ won the slot with 3.2m viewers, according to unofficial overnight figures.
LONDON – The deadline for the relaunched Marketing Design Awards is 31 July.
LONDON – A hunt to find the first UK City of Culture has been launched by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw, in an attempt to stimulate arts outside London.
LONDON – Yahoo, the global internet company, is claiming a “solid performance” in the second quarter of the year, despite revenue falling 13% to $1.573bn and profit tumbling by a quarter to $76m year on year.
LONDON – Arqiva, the infrastructure outfit behind the digital terrestrial TV network, is the sole bidder for the sought-after technology behind the now defunct Project Kangaroo on-demand platform.
LONDON: Target Entertainment Group has signed its first licensing deals for Sony PlayStation software covering a range of titles.
LONDON – Gamesys Group, the UK online entertainment business, has appointed Campbell Lace Beta to handle the integrated advertising account for its JackpotJoy Bingo business.
LONDON – Best Buy has launched an army of sales and customer service representatives on Twitter in an effort to improve the consumer experience.
MediaEquals new high-profile backers, consolidation in the TV sector, a new boss for MySpace and the demise of Teletext are up for discussion with Media Week’s Steve Barrett, Arif Durrani and John Reynolds in the Media Week podcast.
LONDON – Apple sold 5.2 million iPhones in the third quarter ended 27 June, a whopping 626% year-on-year increase in the number of handsets sold.
LONDON – Sports Illustrated has launched a paid-for iPhone application offering pictures and videos from its famed yearly swimsuit issue, and only available to those over the age of 17, which is being described as the sexiest iPhone app to date.
Après la très réussie vidéo de l’homme aux 100 têtes, une nouvelle collaboration de Julien Lassort et Matthieu Burlot (Jul & Mat). Il s’agit du dernier clip non-officiel du groupe Metronomy, sur le titre “On the Motorway”. Du rythme et beaucoup de peinture.
Du même groupe : Metronomy – A Thing for me
LONDON – Tesco has been pulled up by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for a misleading ad that implied all its toys were included in its half-price sale.
LONDON – YouTube has removed a German Sprite ad relating the drink to a sex act after it was revealed as a fake produced by an MTV director as part of a “social experiment”.
LONDON – Imperial Leather has recruited a contestant from reality TV programme ‘Britain’s Next Top Model’ to be the face of its new Skin Bliss shower-lotion range.
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