AA extends brand into home services

LONDON – The AA is moving into the home services business with the launch of an emergency cover policy and a plumbing and electrician callout service.

Tories launch election iPhone app

LONDON – The Conservative Party has launched its own general election iPhone app.

Media Week Awards 2009: video of the night

Last year’s awards night belonged to the newly crowned Media Agency of the Year Mediedge:cia, while MediaCom scooped the Grand Prix and TalkSport partied so hard after winning the Media Brand of the Year award they “misplaced” their trophies…

DfT changes tack in new Think! campaign

LONDON – A £3.5 million integrated advertising campaign urging car drivers to look out for motorbikes sees the Department of Transport switch tactics from depicting crashes to humanising the bike riders.

With Retail 3, Omnicom Salvages Part of BBDO Detroit

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Omnicom Group on Monday is putting a number of former BBDO Detroit staffers back to work with the launch of a new retail-focused shop called Retail 3. Half of the 52-person agency is made up of former BBDO Detroit employees, including Harold Kobakof, president of Retail 3 and former chief retail officer at the shuttered shop.

Virgin Media adds Cartoonito and more Turner Broadcasting mobile content

LONDON – Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting pre-school children’s TV channel Cartoonito will be available to Virgin Media TV subscribers from April.

The Sun backs Alton Towers tickets offer with new WCRS ad

LONDON – The Sun is offering adult thrill-seekers free tickets to Alton Towers theme park, and is promoting the deal through a TV ad created by WCRS.

AOL sells affiliate network Buy.at

LONDON – AOL has sold its affiliate marketing network Buy.at to UK network Digital Window for an undisclosed sum.

Monarch sponsors flight giveaways on Magic 105.4

LONDON – Monarch, the airline company, is sponsoring a giveaway on Magic 105.4 of 100 flights during March.

Piano Table

Voici cette étonnante table se transformant en véritable piano afin d’optimiser l’espace au maximum. Designé et conçu par le créatif Georg Bohle, les clichés sont signés par Joost van Brug. Un instrument et un objet de luxe, disponible au prix de 6000 dollars.



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Condé Nast prepares to put its top magazines on Apple’s iPad

NEW YORK – Condé Nast is to create Apple iPad versions of its Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour magazines, the company is expected to announce later today.

Ant & Dec gameshow pulls in 6.6 million for ITV1

LONDON – ITV1’s new Saturday evening gameshow, ‘Ant & Dec’s Push The Button’, got off to a good start by drawing in more than a quarter of the audience, according to unofficial overnight figures.

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

LONDON – Rooney’s winning goal against Aston Villa and David Cameron’s election campaign are the events making the front pages today while The Sun ramps up its Alton Towers free-ticket offer, with a promotion under its masthead ahead of a TV ad campaign today.

Conservatives urge voters to ‘vote for change’

LONDON – The Conservative Party unveiled its new campaign slogan, ‘Vote for change’, this weekend as it gears up for a multimedia ad campaign ahead of the general election.

Virgin to launch Bravo and Living live streams on Sky Player

LONDON – Sky viewers will soon be able to stream Virgin Media Television channels Bravo and Living live through the online Sky Player.

Pepsi Football World Cup 2010 in Africa viral video

In this video, Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry, Ricardo Kaká, Frank Lampard, Andrei Arshavin and Didier Drogba are playing football in Africa for Pepsi in a pitch with human delimitations.

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M&S bids to be world’s most sustainable retailer within five years

LONDON – Marks & Spencer has put £50m behind achieving an ambitious target of becoming the world’s most sustainable national retailer, with a global supply chain by 2015.

TheHead Animation

Un travail très réussi sur le personnage et la direction artistique par l’illustrateur brésilien Matias Vigliano. Le tout imaginé sur une animation de Dante Zaballa, et un sound-design d’Ariel Gandolfo. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.

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Twitter plans to introduce search ads

LONDON – Twitter is working on a plan to charge for text ads placed in search results, according to a report.

Pearson reports profits up 13% despite FT ad slide

LONDON – Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times, has reported a 13% lift in pre-tax profits for 2009, buoyed by a favourable exchange rate and a strong performance from its core education business.