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LONDON – Nike is plotting the launch of a football-inspired television programme, which is set to break ahead of Euro 2008.

LONDON – Steve Allan, the UK chief executive of WPP’s Group M, is to replace Alexander
Schmidt-Vogel as the chairman and chief executive of MediaCom Worldwide.

LONDON – Unilever is reviewing its £100 million global Knorr account, which is currently held by
WPP’s JWT.

(TrendHunter.com) This extremely provocative and explicit ad for Association of Women Against Genital Mutilation (AMAM) just won an IAA Responsibility Award 2008 at the International Advertising Association first Socially Responsible Communications Awards 2008.

The shocking ad features a woman with her legs spread w…

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has called in global PR support to ens­ure the world’s media stay focused on the election crisis gripping the country.

Labour’s Harriet Harman has hired a new media handler — just weeks after she scored a resounding PR gaffe by donning a flak jacket to stroll around her south London constituency.

The comms teams behind mayoral rivals Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson are at loggerheads over the media tactics employed by the Johnson camp.

• The new oases | Economist.com
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• The Bikini Atoll Involuntary Park | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
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• Artists Space – The New Normal
  13 artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. The concept of privacy, though widely invoked, is difficult to define. The private sphere encompasses domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications, and behaviors—contexts
• inflatable dino Air Quality Visualizer
  Prprogrammed to change color in accordance to the current air quality data extracted from airnow.gov, a cross-agency government website. Airnow.gov is dedicated to transmitting U.S. air quality conditions and forecasts. The hope for this project is to inf

JAKARTA – French consumer goods giant Danone has shifted its estimated US$30 million Indonesian media business from GroupM’s MindShare to Havas Media’s MPG following a pitch with Carat and Initiative.

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s National Environment Agency has appointed Omnicom agencies DDB and PHD to help it in its fight against outbreaks of dengue fever in the tropical city-state.