NEW YORK – Amazon.com has reported a rise in sales of 37% to $4.12bn (£2.1bn) for the first quarter of the year, but its share price has fallen in after-hours trading after it lowered operating income forecast for the year.
LONDON – Pressure group Dream for Darfur has published an Olympics sponsors’ report card, giving D or ‘failed’ grades to 16 top sponsors it claims have persistently refused to help bring security to the war-torn region.
LONDON – Pressure group Dream for Darfur has published an Olympic sponsors’ report card, and failed or gave Ds to 16 of 19 top Olympic sponsors because it claims the companies’ persistently refuse to help bring security to war-torn Darfur.
Wallyworld gossips with us and tells us that the Korean Nazi ad has been pulled, the ad from from Coreana has been rubbing all sorts of people the wrong way since it began airing in early February, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Israeli Embassy sent letters of protest to Coreana calling for the ad’s withdrawal. Wallyworld says:
Korad, the Seoul agency that produced this naff ad, said the concept was a Nazi soldier and Hitler symbolized “revolution” in keeping with the lotion’s “revolutionary” moisturizing and calming effects. What-the-fuck?
Googling a bit, it seems that the storm has been brewing for some time, with Brian in Jeollanam-do blogging on the changes made to the ad after the first round of complaints. They changed “Hitler couldn’t even hold east and west” to “Nobody could hold east and west.”… Ho-kay. Yeah massive difference there. Uhm, not. Robert Koehler found the conclusion in a Korean Newspaper to be ‘a tad bewildering’.
Meanwhile, concerning the protest, Vice President Juliana Yun, the head of sales for Coreana LA, said, “Because of reasons such as image rights, you can’t use advertisements produced in Korea in the United States.â€
So I gather this means “Koreans don’t view Nazi uniforms the same way the rest of the world does” and perhaps even “Koreans reckon Nazi uniforms look bad-ass”.
LONDON – Mini, the BMW-owned car brand, has moved its media planning in-house, ending a three-year relationship with PHD Rocket.
LONDON – The financial fortunes of adland’s finest have taken a knock during the past year, according to the latest version of The Sunday Times Rich List, to be published this weekend (27 April).
LONDON – Stolichnaya, the Russian vodka brand, has called a review of its global advertising account.
LONDON – Robert Campbell is launching a new agency called tgi50, which will specialise in marketing to the over-50s.
LONDON – Sony is on the hunt for an agency to handle its UK direct marketing account.
LONDON – ILG Digital, the parent company of i-level, is close to signing a deal to sell a majority stake in the business to ECI, a UK-based private equity group.
Gordon Brown is said to be increasingly concerned that Conservative Party comÂmunications director Andy Coulson is successfully turning the media against him.
Mid-sized marcoms groups such as Huntsworth, Next 15 and Chime could see themselves snapped up in acquiÂsitions by larger listed companies, analysts have predicted.
As the battle among Ken, Boris and Brian Paddick to be London mayor reaches its climax, no candidate can afford the smallest slip-up. PRWeek brings you a guide to the media teams behind the main players.
The Bank of England will spend £3.15m on PR and comms over the next year, PRWeek can reveal.
Hordes of senior Labour special advisers are said to be passing their CVs to headhunters and recruitment consultants amid concern that their stock is falling.
Three PR agencies whose offices were targeted by Greenpeace this week have opted to remain tight-lipped about the episode.
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— via Bruce@Barbarian
SINGAPORE – StarHub has launched Singapore’s first nation wide location-based mobile advertising service.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Vanity Fair's 286-page green-themed issue is as environment-simpatico as a coal tree. I might be a hot-water-drippin', electronic-device-chargin' reprobate, but I'm also not presenting myself as the paragon of gracious living.
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