Oct
15
Watch the European Union’s anti-smoking ‘superheroes’ viral
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The European Commission has launched an animated web series to raise awareness of tobacco issues among young people.
Oct
15
Gordon Brown to answer to the nation’s mothers in live webchat
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be looking to win the parenting vote tomorrow when he appears in a live webchat on leading parenting community website Mumsnet.
Oct
15
Blood-Rushed Portraits – Mark Miller Captures the Faces of Suspended People (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) Mark Miller has decided to flip the world on its head. Featuring portraits of regular people that are hanging upside down, the gallery ‘Suspended Comfort’ from Mark Miller captures people as if they were…
Oct
15
Small Agencies Make Pretty Good Dates
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You know you're probably doing the right thing when you continually lose your people to our industry's powerhouse agencies. It may sound like a negative, but if agencies such as Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Mother, and Chiat Day hire your employees, they obviously think you're doing something right.
Oct
15
Industry consortium to promote digital technology
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Channel 4, BSkyB, ITV and BT are part of a 50-strong industry consortium launching to promote the take-up of digital technology in the UK.
Oct
15
Nendo Sketchbook
Posted in: UncategorizedUne exposition collective organisée par Moleskine qui invite à remplir leur célèbre sketchbook par des centaines d’artistes. Ce projet est intitulé “Detour” et se déroule actuellement au MoMa Design Store de Tokyo. L’artiste Nendo a créé pour l’occasion ce paysage en papier et en relief.
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Oct
15
First Direct gets transparent through social media
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Internet bank First Direct has launched a dedicated website that will collate live comments made about the brand by internet users in a bid to overcome perceptions that banks lack transparency.
Oct
15
IAB admits to £50m error in UK online ad spend figures
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers have today admitted to a £50 million error in their online ad spend figures for the first half of 2009, which show that the internet has overtaken TV to become the UK’s biggest advertising medium.
Oct
15
OFT launches behavioural targeting probe
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Websites using behavioural advertising are to be probed by the Office of Fair Trading.
Oct
15
Friends Provident becomes Twenty20 title sponsor
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB has announced Friends Provident as the title sponsor of its new Twenty20 competition.
Oct
15
OFT to investigate price promotions
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The Office of Fair Trading has announced it is planning to launch an enquiry into offers and price promotions.
Oct
15
Brands link with The Prostate Cancer Charity to encourage men to grow moustaches
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The Prostate Cancer Charity has launched its annual Movember campaign, encouraging men to grow moustaches to raise funds for the charity and boost awareness of men’s health issues.
Oct
15
Brands link with Prostate Cancer Charity to encourage men to grow moustaches
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The Prostate Cancer Charity has launched its annual Movember campaign, encouraging men to grow moustaches to raise funds for the charity and boost awareness of men’s health issues.
Oct
15
Big Pharma and Google Sidewiki: A Sink or Swim Situation?
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With Sidewiki, pharma companies, concerned with everything from brand perception to adverse event reporting, are now put in a situation where they need to take action or they risk losing control of their brands' online presence — or worse, having the FDA perceive Sidewiki entries as an integral part of a brand site.
Oct
15
MRM London promotes Olly Foot to managing partner
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – MRM London has promoted its head of client services, Olly Foot, to managing partner as the agency continues to reshape under the leadership of CEO Mike Cornwell.
Oct
15
Sony Ericsson readies space hopper flash mob invasion
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – More than 27,000 people have signed up for Sony Ericsson’s online flash mob involving retro space hoppers.
Oct
15
Gok Wan home shopping firm boosts profits and plans US invasion
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Home shopping firm N Brown has said it is planning an assault on the US market, the citadel of the mail order industry, as the Manchester-based firm announced a 13% hike in half-year profits.
Oct
15
Channel 4 signs deal with YouTube
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Channel 4 has signed contracts with YouTube to make its programmes available to watch in full for free.
Oct
15
YouTube and Channel 4 strike content-sharing deal
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – YouTube and Channel 4 have signed a content deal that will make the broadcaster’s long-form programmes available on-demand for free via YouTube in the UK in the coming months.
Oct
15
Behavioural and price targeting first up in Office of Fair Trading study
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The Office of Fair Trading has prioritised behavioural targeting and variable online pricing as the first issues under the microscope on its recently launched study of advertising and pricing.
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