Looking for net profits: Aegon taps into tennis

LONDON – Next week Aegon will kick off its £30m sponsorship of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) by changing the Queen’s Club livery from its traditional red to Aegon’s blue.

InboxDMG launches digital sales promotion practice

LONDON – Digital communications agency InboxDMG, part of the Digital Marketing Group (DMG), is bringing together sales promotion strategy and digital practice to launch of a new dedicated digital sales promotion arm – eSP.

Now to relaunch with £1.5 million marketing push

LONDON – Now magazine is to relaunch with a new-look masthead, a complete redesign and new content.

Tesco uses Clubcard data to target emails

LONDON – Tesco is using Clubcard data to target shoppers via email marketing for the first time.

Digital canvassing: Tories launch Facebook application

LONDON – The Conservative Party is calling on its supporters to ‘donate’ their Facebook statuses in the run-up to this week’s European elections.

NIke promotes Simon Pestridge to global marketing role

LONDON – Simon Pestridge, the marketing director of Nike UK & Ireland, has been promoted to the role of global brand director of sportswear, based at the company’s US headquarters.

British Airways in partnership talks with McLaren F1 team

LONDON – British Airways is in discussions with Formula One team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes about becoming an official partner.

Waitrose shifts focus with price-led ads

LONDON – Waitrose is suspending its brand-led marketing strategy for a price-focused campaign to promote its Essential range.

Voltaren: Ballet, Capoeira, Yoga

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Voltaren is a pain relief gel for body pain as well as chronic joint pain management.

Advertising Agency: SAATCHI & SAATCHI SIMKO, Geneva, Switzerland, SAATCHI & SAATCHI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Post production: Magic Group Amsterdam
Executive Creative Director: John Pallant, Roger Kennedy, Dereck Green, Jean-Francois Fournon
Creative Director: Magnus Olsson
Art Director: Alexandre Lagot
Copywriter: Rick Coolegem
Country: Netherlands
Other Credits:
Art Buyer: Tania Retchisky
Account Supervisors: Stephanie Rupp, Carolyn Dateo

Marketing’s Power 100 next generation 2009

LONDON – Ambitious, successful and sharp – the next generation of marketers is set for big things.

Firms unable to use Change4Life branding in promotions due to delay in DoH guidelines

LONDON – Kellogg, Mars and Nestle have been forced to launch marketing activity supporting the government’s Change4Life campaign without the initiative’s branding and messaging.

Microsoft appoints JWT to Bing account

LONDON – Microsoft has strengthened its relationship with WPP agencies by handing JWT the launch campaign for its Bing search engine.

KFC trials ‘healthier’ griddled chicken

LONDON – KFC is responding to growing consumer demand for healthy foods by launching its first griddled chicken product in the UK market.

Project Natal

Natal est le projet lancé hier par Microsoft pour sa console de salon Xbox 360. Une véritable révolution vidéo-ludique car la manette disparaît au profit d’une caméra qui suit les mouvements du joueur, reconnaît ses gestes, sa voix et ses expressions. A découvrir en HD dans la suite.



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Aucun prix ni de date de lancement pour l’instant.

Microsoft’s Bing targets UK users

LONDON – Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is expected to help the software giant surpass Yahoo and AOL as the number-two ranked UK search player behind Google.

Channel 4 to handle ad sales for music channels

LONDON – Channel 4 is to take over the TV ad sales for Box TV, the operator of seven pay-TV music channels, replacing Sky Media.

Carter set to blight prospects for Channel 4/Five merger

LONDON – Five’s immediate hopes of merging with Channel 4 are likely to be dashed by communications minister Lord Carter, with his upcoming Digital Britain report set to endorse the formation of a C4/BBC Worldwide joint venture as the main means of securing Channel 4’s future.

MPG scoops Haier work

LONDON – China’s Haier, one of the world’s largest white goods manufacturers, has awarded its first multimillion-pound European media business to Havas’ MPG ahead of a major new push in the region.

News International may run thelondonpaper in morning

LONDON – News International is considering launching a morning version of its free afternoon title, thelondonpaper, should it wrest the lucrative contract to distribute newspapers during the morning on the London Underground from rival Associated Newspapers.

The Face set to be revived by Bauer Media after five years

LONDON – Bauer Media is set to revive the iconic style magazine brand, The Face, five years after the title was closed down.