Visual search start-up becomes Google’s first UK acquisition

LONDON – Google has made its first UK acquistion, picking up visual search start-up Plink for an undisclosed sum.

Principles Agency retains JD Williams ad account

LONDON – JD Williams, the UK’s largest direct home shopping company, has retained Principles Agency to handle its advertising account.

Fantastical Fairy Art – Escape into a Fantasy World with Elena Dudina’s Paintings (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Spanish artist Elena Dudina has created these fantastical works of art that are breathtaking. Clearly a talented artist, Elena Dudina has the ability to turn fantasy into reality with how she well she…

Out and About 12 April

Joanna Lumley has an uplifting experience thanks to Clear Channel, while Twitter, Spotify, Google and Comparethemarket.com win trophies at the 2010 Revolution Awards at Grosvenor House

Labour election broadcast goes for crossroads metaphor

LONDON – The Labour Party’s first Party Election Broadcast presents actor Sean Pertwee as an everyman figure trudging over a gloomy moors landscape and telling us about the importance of experience resolve.

Elastosello Acoustic Insulation: Desert, Field, Lake

Advertising Agency: DDB, Santiago, Chile
Executive Creative Directors: Simón Subercaseaux, Matías Lecaros
Creative Director: Eddy Fernández
Art Directors: Cristián Seisdedos, Sergio Duarte, Tomás Garís, Matías
Copywriters: Eddy Fernández, Cristián Seisdedos
Photographer: Gonzalo Arévalo
Illustrator: Gonzalo Arévalo


Peter Kay returns to John Smith’s

Comedian Peter Kay is set to make a return as the John Smith’s brand ambassador after a five-year break from the ale brand’s ads.

Asda on the hunt for chief executive as Andy Bond steps down

Supermarket chain Asda is on the hunt for a new chief executive following Andy Bond’s decision to step down from the role after five years

The girl with the moustache and thick eyebrow

New viral video campaign for the Mini turbo car with a girl on a scooter receiving a flying moustache and eyebrows

Be turbo, be mini

Advertiser: Mini

Agency: Taxi2

Start-up introduces paid search model to Twitter

LONDON – Bill Gross, the brains behind the original model for paid internet search, is attempting to replicate the model for Twitter with the launch of his start-up, TweetUp.

Green Party launches personalised party election broadcast

LONDON – The Green Party has positioned itself as “a true alternative” to the main political parties in its new advertising campaign launched ahead of next month’s General Election.

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

LONDON – Labour’s election manifesto dominates the front pages today, with The Times reporting on Labour’s plan to ‘force foreign workers to speak English’, and The Daily Telegraph revealing plans to ‘win back Middle England’.

Bauer Media’s radio MD Travis Baxter steps down

LONDON – Travis Baxter, former managing director of radio at Bauer Media, has stepped down from his full-time role at the media company after six years.

Rajar chief de la Bedoyere steps down

Sally de la Bedoyere, chief executive of Rajar, has announced she is to leave the radio audience measurement body to undertake new projects.

The Wizard of Dogz

Wizard of Dogz is a viral film created by Saint@RKCR/Y&R to promote the new BBC show ‘Over the Rainbow’ a show where Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber is on the search for a new Dorothy and a new Toto for a West End show.

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Real advertising video player in print magazine for Citroën

Is the video player the future of print advertising?

Citroën has released a real video player in a print magazine with a commercial as you can see in this video.

No idea about the cost but this is impactful.

Advertiser: Citroen

Party leaders to take part in digital Q&A

LONDON – David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg are to conduct question and answer sessions on YouTube and Facebook in an attempt to reach younger and first-time voters.

P&G to raise adspend above sales for 2010

LONDON – The UK and Ireland chief of Procter & Gamble has said the company’s adspend will increase by more than its expected sales growth this year.

Pixie Lott and Gordon Ramsay front new milk campaign

LONDON – Pixie Lott and Gordon Ramsay are fronting the biggest campaign to encourage people to drink milk since the famous ‘Accrington Stanley’ ads of the 80s.

Hocus Pocus – Beautiful Losers

Voici le nouveau clip du groupe Hocus Pocus, réalisé par Wu Yué. Un travail graphique réussi sur le titre “Beautiful Losers” extrait de leur nouvel album : 16 Pièces. A noter que pour l’occasion, Fubiz et le label Mercury vous offre 10 vyniles collector du titre “A Mi-Chemin”.



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