Publicis merges Duke with Digitas London

LONDON – Publicis Groupe has merged its Razorfish-owned boutique digital agency Duke UK with Digitas London.

Paper Round (1 April) – a look at the day’s newspapers

LONDON – Footballer Wayne Rooney hobbles across the national papers this morning after the happy news that he will be fit to play for England in the World Cup.

MUFC fans launch poster campaign

LONDON – Fans seeking a change of ownership at Manchester United are turning to advertising in an effort to increase the pressure on the Glazer family to relinquish control of the club.

Digital executive Jeremy Philips leaves News Corp

LONDON – News Corporation is parting company with key digital executive Jeremy Philips, who has been with the company for six years and was responsible for acquisitions.

BFI calls London Film Festival pitch

LONDON – The British Film Institute has kicked off a search for a creative agency to help devise the identity and advertising for its 54th London Film Festival.

BBH hires Heartfield and Doman from BMB

LONDON – Bartle Bogle Hegarty has hired Ian Heartfield and Matt Doman, the team behind Guinness’ “noitulove”, as creative directors.

DWP seeks agency for pensions ad task

LONDON – The Department for Work and Pensions is looking for an agency to handle the advertising for its National Employment Savings Trust scheme.

Mother unveils new partners

LONDON – Mother has a new partnership line-up – and has enlisted a white horse to illustrate the change.

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Youporn the famous xxx porn site is planning to open soon a cafe chain.

According to this agency, this is to expand their market to brick and mortar.

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Sky in legal action over Ofcom ruling

LONDON – BSkyB reacted strongly yesterday (Wednesday) to an Ofcom ruling that it must cut the amount it charges rivals to offer Sky Sports.

British brand leaders come out in support of Conservative NI plans

LONDON – The chiefs of major UK brands including Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer have come out in support of Conservative Party plans to axe a planned 1% increase in National Insurance.

Coca-Cola partners ITV for Saturday meal-time campaign

LONDON – Coca-Cola has announced a partnership with ITV1, which sees the soft drinks giant align itself with meal times and entertainment, using the strapline ‘Saturday night tastes better with Coca-Cola and ITV1’.

Facebook hires ex-Bebo chief Joanna Shields

LONDON – Facebook has hired former Bebo chief executive Joanna Shields to head its charge into Europe in a move that will see Blake Chandlee shift roles.

KNN Media Tower

Un travail de l’entreprise californienne DRDS Architecture pour le nouveau centre des médias KNN à Busan. Situé dans le quartier Centum City, cela comprend l’installation de bureaux, de plusieurs boutiques et d’un musée. Une ouverture du bâtiment prévue pour 2012.



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Powerade rolls out first global camapign for World Cup

LONDON – Powerade, the Coca-Cola-owned sports drink, is to roll out its first global campaign, building on its affiliation with the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Lord’s to host 3D screening of IPL final

LONDON – Lord’s cricket ground is to host a 3D live screening of the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 competition.

TEXTp youtube video mode in text definition

The TEXTp mode is the new geek feature on the new youtube layout I presented you 2 weeks ago.

Try on this video le tour du monde en 80 secondes and click on the definition and select TEXTp mode.

The video will be now in police characters.

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Standard Chartered unveils new brand positioning

LONDON – Investment bank Standard Chartered is rolling out its first global brand campaign in 40 years to support its forthcoming sponsorship of Liverpool Football Club.

World’s ‘freshest organic’ cola set to launch next week

LONDON – Cow Cola is to be launched next week with backing from a number of leading US investors, and the positioning ‘Made on farms. Not in factories’.

Fallon nets global Nokia launch brief

LONDON – Fallon has won a global advertising brief for Nokia after a pitch against undisclosed agencies.