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LONDON – Viacom Brand Solutions, the sales house for MTV Networks’ channels, has appointed Andy Corcoran as its first head of youth to champion its youth brands among clients and agencies.
LONDON – Video sharing site YouTube will show full-length films and television programmes from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the studio behind the James Bond series, in a bid to increase advertising revenue.
LONDON – The BBC was forced to change the apology it broadcast over the Andrew Sachs and Jonathan Ross phone message scandal, after the ‘Fawlty Towers’ actor complained it did not directly refer to his wife and daughter.
LONDON – MPs are calling for supermarkets to be prevented from selling alcohol at a loss and for pub happy hours to be banned in order to curb alcohol-related violence and disorder.
LONDON – Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, has said that the British press faces a great threat to its freedom by having a privacy law imposed on it that would allow the “corrupt and crooked to sleep easily in their beds”, and make it harder to sell newspapers.
LONDON – Iceland celebrity ambassador Kerry Katona, who reportedly was asked by the retailer to take tests to prove her sobriety, has admitted she is an alcoholic.
LONDON – It’s like ‘Braveheart’ all over again with Scottish bankers surging over the border to waste the English who are determined to remove one of the remaining planks of the Edinburgh financial establishment.
It’s like Braveheart all over again with Scottish bankers surging over the border to waste the English who are determined to remove one of the remaining planks of the Edinburgh financial establishment.
The 15th edition of Artissima, the international fair of contemporary art in Turin, closed yesterday. 128 galleries from 19 different countries gathered under the roof of the city’s historic FIAT factory building at Lingotto.
The event is certainly not as glamorous as Frieze nor is it as vibrant, invigorating and edgy as Art Forum Berlin. Artissima nevertheless scores a few points in the ’emerging galleries and artists’ category and i’m going to document some of them this week.
Prometeo Gallery put up the most exciting show. but that’s just my opinion and i lose any pretense to be objective the minute i see the name of Santiago Sierra on a wall.
Prometeo is also representing Regina José Galindo, a Guatemalan performance artist who received the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2005, in the category of “artists under 30”, for a video (click only if you’re very brave!) that depicted the surgical reconstruction of her hymen.
Galindo’s performances address social injustice, gender discrimination, racism and the governmental atrocities of her own country. In March 2008, she enrolled her family in a performance that protested against the U.S.’ booming industry of private prisons.
Regina José Galindo, America’s Family Prison, 2008. Portable jail cell, trailer. Installation external view
For her performance, America’s Family Prison, Galindo rented a cell for $8,000 from Sweeper Metal Fabricators Corp and had it transported to the Art Pace gallery in San Antonio TX.
The artist, her husband and their 2-year-old daughter locked themselves in the mobile prison unit for 36 hours. Gallery visitors could peep through the narrow windows of the brightly-lighted cell and observe the family as they tried to occupy themselves with books and drawings during their voluntary detention.
The performance refers in particular to T. Don Hutto “Family Residential Center,” a for-profit private prison located in Taylor, near Austin, and operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private jail company in the world with one of the highest stock market values on Wall Street.
Charles Reed/Department of Homeland Security, via Associated Press, via TNYT
T. Don Hutto is the first prison authorized by the state to lodge whole families: men, pregnant women, adolescents, children, women, and even babies. The inmates are not necessarily criminals, very often they are detained there while their immigration status is determined.
A 3 part documentary in english and spanish describing the conditions of life inside T. Don Hutto:
The lucrative market of private prison took off in the 1980s under the Reagan-Bush administrations, prospered throughout the 1990s, and today flourishes due to anti-terrorism measures and tougher immigration laws. Many organizations for human, political, and social rights consider these facilities a new form of human exploitation.
The private prison business is huge. It has its own commercial exhibitions, conventions, websites, and mail-order catalogues. It works with hundreds of partner companies –from architecture and construction firms to plumbers and vendors of food, security equipment and uniforms– that provide services, equipments and goods.
Related entries: YOUprison, Some thoughts on the limitation of space and freedom, Video of the day – Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons and Artur ?mijewski: The Social Studio.
LONDON – MSN UK is to host Kirill, an interactive online five-week science fiction series, produced by Big Brother producer Endemol.
LONDON – Britain’s Got Talent star Jeremy Lynch will feature in a major marketing campaign to launch Nintendo DS title, Football Director DS – the first football management game for the handheld platform.
LONDON – John Lewis is launching a multi-million pound Christmas campaign tonight on channel four.
Many an author has come to incorrect conclusions, but only a few have had the courage to make a prediction in a title that could be directly contradicted.
Viewers watching commercials fast-forwarded with DVRs are still able to recall commercials that contained many frames featuring the brand’s name or logo in the center of the screen.
With ratings for the television series down 20 percent from those of a year ago, NBC took action last week, firing two co-executive producers.
In an absolutely stunning campaign for the German Foundation for Monument Protection, Ogilvy Frankfurt placed life-size replicas of medieval statues around the city, right where you'd usually expect to find a homeless guy. Except instead of little signs saying, "Need money for food," the gnarled looking statues have signs propped in front of them that say, "My cathedral needs help."
Newspapers need to become aggregators of information by outsourcing their news holes to others already producing the material.
Autonomous silos defined by products, countries or functions, often operating in isolation if not in competition with each other, are no longer a viable option. Bty that does not mean the answer is to blow them up.
In an Ad Age CMO Interview, Kraft's chief marketer, Mary Beth West, maintains that you don't have to market differently during in a recession. You just have to understand your consumers better.
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