LONDON – The BBC is to introduce social networking across its websites, having dropped out of the top five most popular sites in the UK last month.
LONDON – Supermarkets will stand firm in the face of growing calls from MPs to scrap alcohol promotions despite being criticised for driving Britain’s “binge-drinking” culture by selling brands as loss leaders.
Advertising Agency: Whybin\TBWA, Sydney, Australia
Exec Creative Director: Garry Horner
Creative Director: Matt Kemsley
Head of TV: Sean Ascroft
Prod Co: Prodigy Films
Director: Tom Gatsoulis
Editor: Sean Ascroft
LONDON – Outspoken radio host Jon Gaunt has been suspended for calling a London councillor a “Nazi” and “ignorant pig” live on air.
LONDON – Production company FremantleMedia has given YouTube a boost by ramping up the amount of online video content it distributes on the site and signing up to use its VideoID technology.
There may not be a lot to smile about in the travel industry at the moment, but even among the wave of bankruptcies and bad PR, not to mention the lost luggage, a few brands have profited. Of course, no one was more pleased by the Heathrow Terminal 5 debacle, which seemed to sum up this industry malaise, than Virgin Atlantic.
LONDON – Channel 4 is making nearly 15% of its 162-strong commercial team redundant, as part of the ongoing cost-cutting process at the broadcaster.
LONDON – Vizeum has snatched the 6m UK media business for Coca-Cola Enterprises brands Appletiser and Capri-Sun from incumbent Mediaedge:cia following an internal review.
LONDON – TV broadcasters are facing a prolonged period of TV ad spend decline, with both Billetts and Zenith predicting relatively sharp falls in TV ad spend next year.
LONDON – Discovery Networks UK and BSkyB are at loggerheads over the amount of ad revenue Sky Media pays Discovery.
LONDON – Emap, the B2B media group, plans to abolish subscription charging around many of its websites next year and has hired a new digital chief.
LONDON – NatMags’ digital unit, Hearst Digital, is restructuring its sales operation for the second time within two years in a move that will lead to four redundancies.
LONDON – Ashley Highfield’s departure from the helm of Kangaroo, only four months after he joined, is being viewed as an act of frustration over delays in launching the venture.
The owner of newspapers including The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune said it lost $121.6 million in the third quarter as newspaper advertising revenue fell.
Editors asked for about 100 volunteers to give up editorial staff jobs at Time, People, Sports Illustrated and a few other Time Inc. magazines.
There’s every reason to believe that President-elect Barack Obama will use his network of supporters not just to campaign, but to govern.
Though the brash media mogul first considered a big-time author, Ted Turner eventually turned to a former subordinate to c0-write his autobiography.
Like many businesses across the retail sector, the publishing industry has been hit by a raft of doom and gloom in the past few weeks.
JWT London created a sexy lippalicious commercial for popular alcoholic beverage, Baileys.
With the tagline, “Listen to your lips,” the spot features luscious red lips responding to droplets of Baileys…
Kanye West – made famous for being on the cutting edge of urban culture. The beats, the cameos, the fashion and most of all the heightened level of urban entertainment.
A man that knows what he likes and it looks as though he’s found something new from us that he likes, check it out here:
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/
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