Ker joins Directgov as director of publishing

LONDON – Directgov, the government’s digital service, has appointed Guy Ker, former chief operating officer of ITN, as director of publishing.

Bowdler to become PA Group non-exec chairman

LONDON – Press Association owner PA Group has appointed departing Johnston Press chief executive Tim Bowdler as non-executive chairman.

Newman appointed Brides publisher

LONDON – Condé Nast has appointed Camilla Newman as publisher of Brides magazine.

Brass joins Endemol as deputy chief operating officer

LONDON – Endemol, the production company behind Big Brother, has appointed Martha Brass as deputy chief operating officer.

LG creates internet-ready TVs in Netflix partnership

NEW YORK – LG Electronics has partnered with online DVD delivery service Netflix to develop a series of television sets that will stream Netflix movies directly through the internet without an additional set-top device.

VW Golf ad provokes slew of complaints

LONDON – The Advertising Standards Authority has received more than 100 complaints about violence in the new VW Golf ad from DDB.

Raul Allen

Raul Allen est un illustrateur espagnol plein de talent qui s’est spécialisé dans l’illustration pour livres et magazines. A son actif, des publications dans GQ ou Rolling Stones.

Chris Powell and Cilla Snowball honoured

LONDON – Former BMP DDB chairman Chris Powell and Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO chair and chief executive Cilla Snowball have both picked up New Year honours.

Kidnapped journalists freed after 40 days in captivity

LONDON – Two journalists held captive by a gang in war torn Somalia, including Sunday Telegraph reporter Colin Freeman, have been freed after spending 40 days hidden in remote caves.

Advertising banned on France’s state-owned channels

PARIS – Primetime advertising will disappear from France’s state-owned television channels from tonight after president Nicolas Sarkozy pushes through an effort to create a public television service to “rival the quality of the BBC”.

WPP to axe thousands of jobs in Europe and North America

LONDON – WPP Group is to cut several thousand jobs, concentrated at its Western Europe and North America operations, according to a report.

BBC and Hasbro under fire for ‘whiting up’ Night Garden doll

LONDON – The BBC has agreed to replace a toy doll of a character from hit children’s TV series ‘In the Night Garden’ after it was attacked for making the toy more light skinned than the on-screen version.

City Republic: Shares defy recession

LONDON – The trading A team returns to its desks today, having watched the B team, the ones left in charge between Christmas and New Year, drive stocks all over the world to unexpected heights.

TVC: Imagine what 20 Million Egyptians can do

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Cairo
Production House: Lighthouse Productions
Post Production: Gravity Post House
Director: M Hamdalla
DOP : Ahmed Morsy

Thanks to AdBasha for finding this first!

Aegis considers spinning off research business

LONDON – Aegis is to consider spinning off its market research business Synovate as one of its options as it prepares to embark on a strategic review of the business.

Softlan Fabric Softener: Rugby, Wrestler

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Advertising Agency: Y&R, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Creative Directors: Rahul Mathew, Rowan Chanen
Art Directors: Richard Chong/Scott McClelland
Copywriter: Rahul Mathew
Retouching: Magic Cube

Beosound 5 Multimedia

Une réalisation du célèbre constructeur danois Bang & Olufsen : une station multimédia dotée d’un écran couleur de 10,4 pouces associé à une molette de contrôle en aluminium servant de support pour l’écran.

Une manière de naviguer facilement dans une collection de CD en visualisant les pochettes, stocké sur un disque dur externe de 500 Go.
La chaîne peut se fixer au mur, se poser sur un meuble ou un pied en métal.

Un design de Anders Hermansen. Prix public : environ 4900 euros.

Grope-Worthy Garments – Fashion That Begs to Be Grabbed (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Get a hold of yourself with these groping garbs. Nothing short of out-there and eccentric, images of hands printed onto boobs and buns are definitely worthy of a double take.

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Digg This, HuffPo: What’s $200 Million Divided by 2009 Reality?


What if the privately held Huffington Post is worth not $200 million — a cracked-out number floated last year — or even $100 million, but, say, $2 mil?

Economy Weighs Heavily on Marketing Execs for 2009

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Marketing executives are tired of buzzwords such as Web 2.0, blogs and social networking. They're more concerned about credit availability, housing markets, alternative energy and the trade deficit, according to a new study of top-level marketers.