Postgoldforcash.com appoints media agency

LONDON – Postgoldforcash.com has appointed John Ayling 8 Associates to handle offline media planning and buying following a competitive pitch.

FHM ties with House of Fraser to revive FHM Collections

Lads’ mag FHM is partnering with retailer House of Fraser to revive its style flip-cover FHM Collections, which it last published in 2006.

VW 4Motion: Mauritz Escher

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Advertising Agency: DDB, New Zealand
Executive Creative Director: Toby Talbot
Group Head: Gavin Siakimotu
Head of Art: Mike Davison
Art Director: Damian Galvin
Copywriter: Carlos Savage
Illustrator: Brian Harrison
Retoucher: Gordon Moir
Group Account Director: Paul Wilson
Senior Account Manager: Joni Rogers

ITV1 reaps 9.9m audience with ‘X-Factor’ return

LONDON – ITV1 enjoyed big ratings on Saturday night with 9.9m viewers watching the return of ‘X-Factor’ and 5.6m staying tuned for new gameshow ‘The Cube’, according to unofficial overnight figures.

What face do you make when playing video games?

This japanese video shows faces of video game players… Advertiser: PS3 Slim / Playsation Slim

LA Times owner sells Chicago Cubs for $845m

NEW YORK – Tribune Inc, owner of the Los Angeles Times, is to sell the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team to the Ricketts family for $845m (£513m) as part of its effort to reduce its debts.

Public View – DfT ‘don’t drug drive’ by Leo Burnett London

LONDON – Did the public get a kick from the DfT’s latest ad to discourage drug-driving?

Twitter loses bid to trademark ‘tweet’

NEW YORK – Twitter has failed in a bid to trademark the word ‘tweet’ after the US Patent and Trademark Office ruled that three other companies developing applications for the site already had a prior claim on the word.

Paris Carving Map

Après six mois de recherches et un séjour de 7 jours dans la capitale Française, Mark Andrew Webber à consacré plus de 2 mois sur ce projet, afin de représenter une vue aérienne de Paris sous forme de gravure typographique. Plus d’images à découvrir dans la suite.



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Pour en savoir plus, voir le portfolio de Mark Andrew Webber.

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Blogger at centre of ‘skank’ model case plans to sue Google

NEW YORK – Google faces another headache over the ‘skank’ model blog, with the blogger at the centre of the story vowing to sue the company for revealing her identity.

Basheer Graphic Book: Rainbow by Pantone

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Basheer graphic bookstore would like to promote Pantone color guide book to art college students and faculty, and to convince them that Pantone has the most color selection for their printing guidance so they gave the job to Bates 141 Jakarta.

Advertising Agency: Bates 141, Jakarta, Indonesia
Executive Creative Director: Hendra Lesmono
Art Director: Andreas Junus, Irawandhani Kamarga
Copywriter: Iyan Susanto

Guinness: 1759

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AMVBBDO London commemorate the 250th anniversary of Guinness.

Advertising Agency: AMVBBDO, London, United Kingdom
Executive Creative Director: Paul Brazier
Art Director: Chris Kelly
Copywriter: Rob Webster
Designer: Steve Davies
Account manager: Andrea Flamini

HOT cable TV: Revealing billboard

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BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Tel Aviv have applied to the Guinness Book of Records for having created the world’s largest dress. The 100 square meter garment appears on a huge billboard in Tel Aviv, part of a campaign for a new fly-on-the-wall documentary showing on HOT cable TV. The series, called ‘Connected’, follows the private lives of five different women, who document every detail of their daily routine with hand-held video cameras. Wiewers can watch all of the footage live, 24 hours a day. The 6-storey high wall billboard features the cast of the show in full size, with the main character wearing the record-breaking dress which reveals all to passersby below – just as the the show promises to ‘expose everything’.

Advertising Agency: BBR Saatchi & Saatchi, Tel Aviv, Israel
Executive Creative Director: Yoram Levi
Art Director: Udi Ovadia
Copywriter: Yoad Mick
Account manager: Yael Ron
Account supervisor: Sigal Tzur
Account executive: Nataly Ziv

RKCR/Y&R offers free advice to Camden’s small businesses

LONDON – Small businesses in Camden are getting free advertising advice from RKCR/Y&R for the rest of this week.

Mark Zuckerberg: The Post-Content King as Future of Media


Call Sam Zell the last of the great media wannabes. As for Murdoch and Redstone and the other fading content kings, it's increasingly clear that no one will ever replace them.

Don’t Just Sit There, Innovate Your Way Out of the Downturn


The way out of the recession is not to wait for an uptick. The way out is to create our own uptick. Here are a few examples of what we're doing at Crain Communications.

Whatever the Merits of Obama’s Reform, the Marketing Is a Mess


Even in the best of years, tackling health-care reform in the U.S. demands something approaching perfection when it comes to messaging and branding. Team Obama didn't come close.

What’s Ailing McCann Erickson’s U.S. Operation

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — With the erosion of major client relationships and a sense among some consultants that McCann's strength is its global footprint, rather than its domestic creative output, questions are being asked about the U.S. arm of the machine.

Domination Wanted: VW Dumps Crispin in Bid to Triple U.S. Sales


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's easier to explain why Volkswagen split with U.S. agency of record Crispin Porter & Bogusky after a four-year run than it is to guess what will replace the Black Beetle sitting in the lobby of the agency's Boulder, Colo., offices.

Keeping a Premium Brand Premium During Recession


CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — After nearly 20 years with California Pizza Kitchen, CMO Sarah Grover knows exactly what the company's co-CEOs are looking for. In an interview with Ad Age, Ms. Grover shared her strategy for guiding the chain through the recession, why you shouldn't expect to see any discounts from CPK and how her PR experience is informing her role as CMO.