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LONDON – The Royal Mail and Microsoft Advertising are today launching a bespoke Royal Mail hub to promote its range of stamp issues to a new, younger audience.

LONDON – T-Mobile has been confirmed as the source of an illicit sale of personal details belonging to thousands of mobile phone customers.

LONDON – Mickey Mouse should not be changed into a cunning and cantankerous character as it would “spoil the essence” of the 71-year-old Disney character and be “a very expensive mistake”, according to members of the public interviewed by Brand Republic.

(TrendHunter.com) It’s not surprising that a brand as iconic as Disney has managed to cross its way from children- and family-centric innovations to high fashion editorials. But crossed it has–at least in influence–and…

Advertising Agency: GJP Advertising + Design, Toronto, Canada
Chief Creative Officer: Alan Gee
Creative Directors: Lisa Greenberg/Trevor Schoenfeld
Copywriter: Ross Pryde
Art Director: Chris Duchaine

LONDON – The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a radio ad for the cosmetic surgery group MyBreast after a rival challenged its claim to be “leaders in cosmetic surgery here in the UK”.

If you can count on the Republicans to scare the bejeezus out of you with bombs and vaguely threatening foreigners, you can also count on the Democrats to trot out some cute kids to basically say that if health-care reform isn't passed they will die and, in the process, bankrupt their parents. That's the message at the heart of the winning entry in the Organizing for America Health Reform Video Challenge.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Procurement took a bit of a beating at the American Advertising Federation's annual Hall of Achievement awards today, a sign that some marketers and agencies have reached the breaking point when it comes to the penny-pinching that they feel is starting to strangle creativity and innovation.

In past years, predicting post-Thanksgiving holiday-shopping results seemed like a game of rock, paper, scissors. Retailers are desperate for a profitable Black Friday. Of course, they remain at the mercy of those whose wallets matter most: women, the power shoppers who always make or break the holiday. To detect women's hidden holiday-shopping secrets, marketing consultancy Just Ask a Woman fielded a survey of 2,000 women to expose some half truths of Christmas 2009. Here's what we found.

ATLANTA (AdAge.com) — Coca-Cola is gearing up for its largest social-media project ever, one that will test its own organizational flexibility and force a number of its global markets into the digital and social-media space.