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Posted in: UncategorizedBates Singapore appoints Sorge as creative director
Posted in: UncategorizedSINGAPORE – Bates141 Singapore has replaced outgoing creative director Raymond Quah with Travis Sorge (pictured), the former creative director of Grey Bangkok.
BBC head of radio Abramsky steps down for Lottery role
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Jenny Abramsky, the BBC’s head of radio, is leaving the corporation after a career spanning almost 40 years to chair the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Guardian’s McCall steps down from Tesco
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Carolyn McCall, chief executive of Guardian Media Group, has resigned from her post as a non-executive director of Tesco after the supermarket giant launched a libel lawsuit against the Guardian newspaper last week.
Rattling Stick film used for Elbow video
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – An un-commissioned film by Ringan Ledwidge, a founding partner and director at Rattling Stick, has been used as the video for the latest Elbow single, One Day Like This.
M&C Saatchi releases Ladbrokes online casino ad
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – M&C Saatchi has launched its new £2 million campaign to promote Ladbrokes’ online casino.
TNS upbeat about first quarter despite challenging economy
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Market research group Taylor Nelson Sofres has reported a good first quarter revenue performance and strong growth in new business activity, despite the current economic climate.
Miller exits Draftfcb for new partner role at EHS Brann
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – Draftfcb has lost its managing partner, Tony Miller, who is leaving the agency to join Havas-owned EHS Brann, where he has been appointed as client partner.
Digital Grunt: the glamourous life in the visual effects industry
Posted in: UncategorizedA glorious Friday yet again, so I present to you todays eerily accurate timewaster. Post-production is always like this! (also note the client picks out that one bad pixel, arrrgh!) Do read the credits kids.
H&M named Europe’s top performing retail brand
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – H&M, the Swedish fashion retailer, has been named as Europe’s top performing retail brand with a value of £8.3bn, ahead of UK brands Tesco and M&S, which also featured in the report by Interbrand.
Sony selects H&K to handle PR
Posted in: UncategorizedSINGAPORE – Sony Electronics has appointed Hill & Knowlton to handle public relations for its consumer electronics business, which was previously handled in-house.
Sony Electronics appoints Hill & Knowlton to handle Singapore PR
Posted in: UncategorizedSINGAPORE – Sony Electronics has appointed Hill & Knowlton to handle public relations for its consumer electronics business, which was previously handled in-house.
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Posted in: Uncategorized- Hannah Pool visits Modbury the first town in Europe to ban plastic bags | Environment | The Guardian
A year after Modbury in Devon became the first town in Europe to ban plastic bags, Hannah Pool pays a visit to see how life has changed for shoppers and traders - From hell | Features | guardian.co.uk Film
To qualify as one of the worst films of all time, several strict requirements must be met. For starters, a truly awful movie must have started out with some expectation of not being awful. - "Aiuto, Google è davanti a casa mia" – Galleria – Repubblica.it
Street View di nuovo sotto accusa per violazione della privacy. Aaron e Christine Boring, di Pittsburgh hanno denunciato il sito dopo aver scoperto che foto dettagliate della loro villa erano finite su Google Maps. Secondo i due coniugi, affetti da una gr - Elections in Italy go below the belt, Sex and Blogs
Candidate Milly D’Abbraccio had posters affixed in Rome featuring… well… a nicely-shaped ass and the slogan ‘basta con queste facce da c…’ ("Enough with these ass faces"). - Rhizome – Interview with Eddo Stern
Tonight Stern will host "QQ More", a screening he curated of machinima dealing with real-life issues such as drugs, pornography, and death at Brooklyn’s Light Industry. The show begins at 8pm and will be followed by a discussion between Stern and Alexande - MobHappy » Blog Archive » Dead Happy
Bringing back the dead via digital memories. - LA CASA ENCENDIDA – Try again
el trabajo de una treintena de creadores (entre artistas visuales, directores y músicos) que utilizan el videojuego como materia prima poniendo en evidencia que actualmente modificar los juegos resulta tan natural como jugar con ellos. - Quand la réalité virtuelle mesure la paranoïa urbaine | InternetActu.net
not to self: maybe useful for talk in scotland - Ananova – Less of your sauce!
He said squirting ketchup was not a criminal act but it could be possible to bring charges of criminal damage if paintwork was damaged on homes or vehicles. - Ananova – Sheep replace mowers
Police are having to double up as shepherds in Turin after local councillors decided to scrap the city lawnmowers – and use sheep instead. - Trevor Paglen on The Colbert Report | marshallastor.com
He’s on The Colbert Report right now (Monday night), talking about his book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World.
Siemens Energy hands global brief to McCann Thailand
Posted in: UncategorizedERLANGEN – Siemens Energy has appointed McCann WorldGroup Thailand to handle its consolidated US$45 million global advertising business as the German energy giant looks to push into emerging markets.
Rashbass to take on lead role at The Economist
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The Economist publisher and managing director Andrew Rashbass will take over from Helen Alexander (pictured) as group chief executive when Alexander steps down from her role in July.
P3 to change name ahead of Asia launch
Posted in: UncategorizedMELBOURNE – P3, the Melbourne-based marketing procurement consultancy, will be rebranding to avoid confusion with rival R3 ahead of its launch in Singapore and Hong Kong this summer.
McCann Philippines wins Splash accounts
Posted in: UncategorizedMANILA – McCann Erickson has won back-to-back accounts from Splash Corporation, a leading Filipino personal care firm, to become creative agency for its Biolink Tea Tree Oil and Virgin Coconut Oil brands.
Burnett Shanghai bolsters leadership
Posted in: UncategorizedSHANGHAI – Leo Burnett Shanghai has promoted Lou Knowles (pictured), previously group brand director, to the position of client services director at Arc.
Dell first to take HK ads on Facebook
Posted in: UncategorizedHONG KONG – Dell has signed up as the first Hong Kong-specific advertiser on Facebook.