Holland & Barrett has awarded its £5 million advertising account to WCRS following a shoot-out against M&C Saatchi. It is the first time the retailer has appointed a retained advertising agency.
Grand Union has landed a digital brief to promote Canon’s sponsorship of the Euro 2008 football tournament. The agency secured the business following a three-way pitch.
Interpublic Group has reported a first-quarter loss of $62.8 million, and revenues of $1.5 billion. The figures are an improvement on the same quarter last year, when IPG lost more than $125 million and reported revenues of $1.36 billion.
Gia Mills, a former campaign director at Isobel, has joined glue London as its marketing director. In the newly created role, Mills will have marketing responsibility for glue, Superglue and Anorak.
Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw has hired Graeme Noble, the interactive group head at Tullo Marshall Warren, to the new role of digital creative director.
Rapier has poached Tullo Marshall Warren’s business director, Samantha Kennedy, to head up one of the agency’s three client hubs as managing partner. Kennedy will take responsibility for Lloyds TSB.
The advertising industry won a reprieve from a 9pm watershed for junk-food commercials this week when the Labour MP Nigel Griffiths failed to muster enough support to force his backbench bill through the Commons last Friday.
(TrendHunter.com) While it’s nice to treat yourself to a luxurious soak in the tub after a long and stressful day, you have to remember that millions of people around the world struggle to find drinking water to survive. Lest you forget, Flore de Crombrugghe has come up with a brilliant transparent bathtub design tha…
Italy’s Olympic team is being officially sponsored by Freddy who have hired Italian ad agency, 1861 United, to create a unique series of very visual ad campaigns.
The ads consists of print campaigns and videos and feature members of the Italian team that will compete in the Summer 2008 Beijing Oly…
(TrendHunter.com) Scrap tradition, get creative! These cakes are ultra innovative!
Some people follow recipes, but really creative people know that the best thing they could ever bake comes from tossing the book aside and taking risks! Just look at this super gallery of offbeat cakes!
Instructables held a contest…
(TrendHunter.com) Until now, BlackBerries have been an open-faced, one-piece mobile device. It’s that very reason that many people either love or hate the phones. Finally BlackBerry has launched an alternative, the BlackBerry Kickstart, a clamshell flip-phone, and it’s likely to attract a whole new swarm of customers…
Think Dr. Martens are boring? Think you know how to make them better? Doc is listening.
They’ve created a contest, aptly named FREEDM, that gives anyone the freedom to express their footwear design ideas. Entries can be designs for short or high cut (8 or 14-hole) boots and can be as wildly creativ…
(TrendHunter.com) Italy’s Olympic team is being officially sponsored by Freddy who have hired Italian ad agency, 1861 United, to create a unique series of very visual ad campaigns.
The ads consists of print campaigns and videos and feature members of the Italian team that will compete in the Summer 2008 Beijing Oly…
(TrendHunter.com) GeoSimCities is a website that provides a 3-D virtual representation of cities.
This is a wonderful idea. I visited the site and checked out the virtual Philadelphia tours of offered on the site. Also included in virtual Philly was E-shopping, city planning, human interaction with other visitors to…
(TrendHunter.com) Think Dr. Martens are boring? Think you know how to make them better? Doc is listening.
They’ve created a contest, aptly named FREEDM, that gives anyone the freedom to express their footwear design ideas. Entries can be designs for short or high cut (8 or 14-hole) boots and can be as wildly creativ…
Might you look good in Reece’s hair? According to Media Week millions of women are answering that question, and others like it, at InStyle.
The magainze’s “Hollywood Hair Application” has caught on. Users have uploaded 1.7 million of their personal photos to the application, which let’s them see what they might look like with popular celebrity hairstyles – such as Katie Holmes’ much-discussed bob.
To date, users have conducted 40 million “try-ons†with the application – which last month became available on Facebook as well. That application has already been installed on over 200,000 Facebook profiles.
InStyle is also planning to launch a weekly, celebrity-related video series sometime in the fourth quarter, after the recent success of a content initiative which drove readers to InStyle.com to view original video material.
(TrendHunter.com) Not so long ago we mentioned that a Japanese astronaut would be experimenting with the physics of objects in space, and that included flying paper airplanes and boomerangs. This video, released by JAXA, shows the result of Takao Doi’s boomerang experiment in the International Space Station’s Harmo…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re like me, you’re attracted to stories with great photos. If this sounds like you, TenbyTen.org is worth checking out. It features the top 100 current news stories in a photo cube of, you guessed it, 10 photos across and 10 photos high. It’s updated hourly and is a great resource for spottin…
Barack Obama's campaign has spent more than $70 million to air more than 121,000 campaign ads. But the ads starring Obama that his campaign is not paying for are attracting the most attention. Recently, we have seen candidates, interest groups and a state political party all using Obama's quotes, pastor and likeness in an attempt to attack their opponents.
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