Titan Outdoor to install 100 digital screens in top UK malls

LONDON – Titan Outdoor is to roll out a network of more than 100 digital six-sheets at 18 of the leading shopping centres across the UK.

Knott to manage ad sales for SaniPost

LONDON – Mungo Knott, the former managing director of defunct outdoor media owner Streetbroadcast, is to head ad sales and marketing for start-up outdoor outfit Nettoyer Media.

Reader’s Digest puts its database of 2 million active readers on the market

LONDON – Reader’s Digest has just released its database of over 2 million customers and has handed the list management task to MediaLab.

MEC launches sponsor tool

LONDON – Mediaedge:cia’s specialist partnership division, MEC Access, is launching a consumer research and modelling tool, Rose, that will analyse the impact of sponsorships.

C4 creates menu-themed ad break

LONDON – Channel 4 is launching a three-and-a-half-minute menu-themed ad break during Come Dine With Me.

Ronald McDonald’s Yellow Gloves Go Couture


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ronald McDonald doesn't come to mind as the most likely brand icon to be integrated into New York's Fashion Week. But as part of McDonald's larger promotional involvement in the event, his gloves have been given a couture redesign and are selling for $50 a pair — and you can only buy them via Twitter. Meanwhile, the burger chain's McCafe is the official gourmet coffee provider at the high-fashion fest in Bryant Park.

Channel 4 digital investment fund engages advisers

LONDON – Channel 4’s £50m public service digital media investment fund 4iP has engaged business advisory and investment company Pembridge Partners to advise its key projects.

Homepride prepares for slew of complaints for latest ‘sexist’ ad

LONDON – Homepride, which received 700 complaints at the Advertising Standards Authority for its oven cleaning product Oven Pride, is continuing the ‘sexist’ theme for a new campaign for its Shower 8 Bath Pride product.

Northern Foods launches site for ‘biscuit safety authority’

LONDON – Northern Foods has launched a website as part of a £3m campaign warning consumers about the dangers of either eating or reaching for biscuits.

Brill’s paid content venture signs up 1,000 affiliates

NEW YORK – Media veteran Steve Brill has signed up 1,000 newspapers, magazines and news sites to his Journalism Online venture, which hopes to allow publishers to charge for content.

CRR report: Guide to the Competition Commission’s proposals

LONDON – What might a “son of CRR” look like? Media Week boils down the Competition Commission’s main proposals.

Tesco data arm Dunnhumby sees profits rise 71pc thanks to global expansion

LONDON – Dunnhumby, the data analytics arm owned by Tesco, saw profits rise 71pc last year thanks to continued expansion overseas, particularly in the US.

Google apes revolutionaries with Data Liberation Front

LONDON – Google has launched a project to help users seize control of their own data and play down claims of critics that it locks people into its services.

ITV1 loses viewers in Monday peaktime slot

LONDON – ITV1’s police drama ‘Blue Murder’ was watched by 4.5m viewers last night, down half a million from last week, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Church of England targets lapsed churchgoers in first radio ad campaign

LONDON – The Church of England is launching its first radio ad campaign in a bid to encourage people to start going to church.

NSW Health: Get Tested. Play Safe

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Faced with a significant increase in STI’s (sexually transmissible infections), particularly in young adults, the NSW Government has set out to raise awareness of the problem. The campaign theme – Sleeping with one is sleeping with many – brings the message to life and the tagline is a simple call to action: get tested, play safe.

Advertising Agency: George Patterson Y&R, Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Director: James Procter
Art Director: Robbie Kantor & Josh Evans
Copywriter: Bart Pawlak

MCBD lands £17 million Moneysupermarket.com ad account

LONDON – Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy has scooped the £17 million advertising account for Moneysupermarket.com following a final shoot-out against Fallon.

Braids as bus handles / Tresses à la douzaine

pigtail2007juin THE ORIGINAL?
Gliss Kur Total Repair Shampoo – 2007
Source : Cannes Lions Archive.
Agency : TBWA Dusseldorf (Germany)
pigtail2008mars LESS ORIGINAL
Activ Strong Shampoo – 2008
Source : Cannes Lions Archive,
Agency : Young & Rubicam Frankfurt (Germany)
pigtail2009a LESS ORIGINAL
Johnny Andream Shampoo – 2009
Source : Cannes Lions Archive,
Agency : Fortune (Indonesia)
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CRR report: Ad rules must remain, rules Competition Commission

LONDON – ITV’s hopes for the abolition or wholesale overhaul of Contract Rights Renewal, the rules which dictate how much ITV1 can charge advertisers, have been dashed by the Competition Commission.

Orange Gold Spots by Mother London – the story behind the campaign

LONDON – Read how Mother London planned and created the most iconic cinema ad campaign of recent years – the Orange Gold Spots.