CHI snatches £15m RBS retail account from M&C Saatchi
Posted in: UncategorizedLONDON – The Royal Bank of Scotland has moved its £15m retail advertising account from M&C Saatchi to CHI & Partners without a pitch.
LONDON – The Royal Bank of Scotland has moved its £15m retail advertising account from M&C Saatchi to CHI & Partners without a pitch.
President Nicolas Sarkozy is proposing a complete ban on public TV commercials in France. To make up for revenue lost, the country will tax the internet and mobile phones. The IHT calls the move “virtually without precedent.” The move…
LONDON – The AA has kicked off the expected review of its £33 million above- and below-the-line creative accounts with a view to consolidating them into one agency and placing greater emphasis on direct response.
LONDON – The ASA has upheld a complaint that a direct mailing from a division of mail order clothing company Littlewoods irresponsibly encouraged young female shoppers to spend excessively.
LONDON – Below-the-line agency Claydon Heeley has poached Caroline Taylor, a planner at Craik Jones, as its new planning director.
LONDON – Retail marketing agency Creo, which launched 10 months ago, has bought a company that specialises in making point-of-sale materials, the Lauren Group.
LONDON – UK music fans will pay less for iTunes downloads within six months, after the European Commission ruled it was unlawful for Apple to charge more in Britain than it does in Europe.
LONDON – BBC One’s racy new drama ‘Mistresses’ pulled in 4.9m viewers last night, beating Taggart’ on ITV1 to win the 9pm primetime slot. Five also put in a strong performance with the new series of ‘CSI’, according to the unofficial TV overnight figures.
LONDON – Mediaedge:cia is expected to lose the non-EU portion of Visa’s European media account to OMD, which was yesterday awarded the bulk of Visa’s $500m (£265m) global media business.
PARIS – French public television will have all advertising removed and commercial television networks could see their ad revenue taxed, according to plans unveiled by President Nicolas Sarkozy this week.
LONDON – Iceland has denied rumours that former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona has been dropped, saying that she is still under contract as the spokesperson of its advertising.
LONDON – Real Homes magazine has been redesigned with a new cover and logo in the last of a series of design changes implemented by Michelle Ogundehin, who joined the title as editor-in-chief last summer.
We’ve done this before (remember the hidden [in plain sight]Â persuaders debate?). You all know that creating fake identities on boards and chatting up your product will bite you in the ass sooner or later. But it all depends on the community you are trying to pimp your stuff on. Metafilter is self-policing community (that I’ve always hoped Adland could emulate), where members thought a question posted to Ask Metafilter just didn’t look right….
Britney Spears locked herself in out server room and started causing havoc. So the site was down for 12 hrs today. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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LONDON – Lynx has unveiled the first ongoing digital expression of its renowned ‘Lynx Effect’ slogan.
EDINBURGH – Mediacom Scotland is working with Massive to launch to the UK’s first Xbox Live campaign using IP targeting for the Scottish Government.