Future appoints Northcliffe’s Smith as T3 ad director

LONDON – Future, the specialist publisher behind titles such as Total Film, has appointed Matt Smith, a former senior business executive at Northcliffe Newspapers, as the new advertising director of gadget title T3.

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Advertising Agency: Saatchi&Saatchi, Milan, italy
Creative Directors: Agostino Toscana, Alessandro Orlandi, Sandro Esposti
Deputy Creative Directors: Luca Pannese, Luca Lorenzini
Art Director: Luca Pannese
Copywriter: Luca Lorenzini
Art buyer: Rossana Coruzzi
Account Director: Valerie Alexandre
Photographer: Andrea Melcangi

Ryanair confirms toilet charges

LONDON – Ryanair has confirmed that it plans to charge for toilets on its aeroplanes.

Tetley Green Tea ad banned by ASA for overstating health benefits

LONDON – A TV ad for Tetley Green Tea has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for misleading consumers about its health benefits.

DM Media Digest: Susan Boyle’s potential brand partners; behavioural targeting gets second chance; and other stories

LONDON – Marketing Direct’s weekly round up of media coverage of direct and digital marketing in the Daily Telegraph, Forbes, the FT and others

Clear Channel slammed over BNP poster campaign

LONDON – Clear Channel has received thousands of letters of complaint over its deal with the British National Party to run posters for the party’s European election campaign.

Sunshine boosts sales at B&Q

LONDON – The late spring sunshine has been good news for B&Q’s parent company Kingfisher.

Gary Lineker teams up with Cat Deeley in TV ad for Walkers free-trip promotion

LONDON – Walkers has launched a TV campaign, which teams up brand ambassador Gary Lineker with TV presenter Cat Deeley, to promote its latest on-pack promotion, Gary’s Great Trips.

Hummer set to follow MG into Chinese ownership

LONDON – General Motors has struck terms to sell its gas-guzzling 4×4 brand Hummer to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial for an undisclosed sum estimated to be between $100m (£60m) and $200m.

Public says broadband is essential for all

LONDON – Nearly three-quarters of people with broadband at home say that they couldn’t live without it and soon it will be essential for everyone, according to new research.

RMG’s David Douthwaite passes away

LONDON – David Douthwaite, the creative head of RMG Connect, has passed away at the age of 33 after an accident.

Keep Britain Tidy seeks celebrity ambassador

LONDON – Keep Britain Tidy is hunting a clean-living celebrity to promote its cause.

Jonathan Ross’ pay could be hit by Norton chat show move

LONDON – BBC bosses are shifting Graham Norton’s chat show to a prime-time slot on BBC One as part of a plan to raise the entertainer’s profile, leading to speculation that Jonathan Ross’s £6m salary will be cut by up to half.

AMV and MG OMD scoop NHS Blood and Transplant account

LONDON – COI has appointed Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and Manning Gottlieb OMD handle advertising and media planning for the NHS Blood and Transplant account.

Agencies prepare for increase in redundancies in Q2

LONDON – Almost half of UK ad agencies expect to see a decrease in staff numbers over the next quarter, a survey by the Marketing Communications Consultants Association has found.

Giant Gypsy Earrings – Jennifer Hudson Rocks Enormous Ear Candy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Singer and actress Jennifer Hudson is embracing the Spring 2009 giant earring fashion trend that TrendHunter.com has previously reported on.

Jennifer Hudson sported the gigantic gypsy-style earrings earlier…

Facebook plots introduction of “credits” payment system

LONDON – Facebook is in the early stages of developing an internal payments system that will allow users to buy “credits” which they can exchange for virtual goods, according to a report in the Financial Times.

Group M warns newspapers and magazines under “lethal threat”

LONDON – Group M has lowered its forecasts for newspapers and magazines, warning that falling advertising revenues put even household media names under “lethal threat”.

Cédric Delsaux

Retour sur le talent Cédric Delsaux, un photographe qui s’est fait connaître avec sa série “La vitrine des choses” autour de la banlieue : véritable invitation des personnages de Star Wars dans notre réalité et notre ville, grâce à un mélange de prises de vue réelles et de photoshop.



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Music: Christiaan Lippmann
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