Visual search start-up becomes Google’s first UK acquisition
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Google has made its first UK acquistion, picking up visual search start-up Plink for an undisclosed sum.
LONDON – Google has made its first UK acquistion, picking up visual search start-up Plink for an undisclosed sum.
LONDON – JD Williams, the UK’s largest direct home shopping company, has retained Principles Agency to handle its advertising account.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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’.
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.
Sally de la Bedoyere, chief executive of Rajar, has announced she is to leave the radio audience measurement body to undertake new projects.
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
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.
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.
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.
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