21 Dec 2005
| by Ben Carter
Bacardi-Martini has handed the $160m (£90.3m) global advertising account for its rum brands to WPP...RKCR/Y&R, which will handle the business from the UK, has been tasked
with creating a global advertising idea. Fallon London, the incumbent in the UK, is expected to lose its £10m UK rum account ...
curtailed
advertising review last year to consolidate the global rum brand in a
single agency. Instead ...
21 Dec 2005
24 December Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, King's College, Cambridge. Televised Christmas Eve...people in Britain. 3 January Whitbread Book Awards 2005. Category winners receive £5000; the Book of the Year wins a further £25,000. 10 January Brit Awards 2006 shortlist announced. Diary data supplied ...
21 Dec 2005
Product placement in UK TV programmes has come a step closer after Ofcom gave a cautious welcome...Last week the EC published a draft paper proposing to ditch its ban on
'surreptitious advertising'. The EC is using the review of the Television Without Frontiers directive
to relax legislation across ...
by broadcasters, advertisers and suppliers. The announcement of the consultation coincided with Ofcom research ...
21 Dec 2005
| by Drew Barrand
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has slammed the last-minute decision...of British Advertisers (ISBA) was not available
for comment on the decision. ...
21 Dec 2005
The launch of high-definition television (HDTV) will be the big media marketing challenge for 2006...campaign provided virtually for free. 30 SECONDS ON ... HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION - High-definition (HD) TV has been available to consumers in the US
since 2002. It will launch in the UK in 2006. - Programmes shown in high definition on an HD-compatible TV have four
times as much picture information ...
21 Dec 2005
| by Ben Carter
Yahoo! is to open up its broadband music-video service to third-party advertisers for the first...that the medium would be easy for brand owners to use
because it allows them to transfer existing TV advertising ...
The internet giant already sells ads on its US music service; more than
200 advertisers have ...
for free. The company is to start meeting UK media agencies and advertisers next
week, when ...
21 Dec 2005
| by Jeremy Lee
the operation of the television advertising
sales market and no calls from the advertising or broadcasting ...
attracts more than 40% of television
advertising budgets. However, it said it was monitoring ...
for a
successor in January. By the time he leaves Connolly will have overseen three TV trading
seasons ...
21 Dec 2005
for volume discounts it had
received but had failed to pass on. 3. BBH LANDS BRITISH AIRWAYS The pitch for British Airways' £60m advertising business dominated
the summer as Bartle Bogle Hegarty, M Celebrity ...
team also
raised a few eyebrows, as Simon Shaps was made director of television
ahead of director ...
21 Dec 2005
| by David Tiltman
The government has shelved plans for a multimillion-pound advertising campaign to tackle binge
21 Dec 2005
| by Nicola Clark
Burger King has consolidated its £50m global advertising business into its US agency, Crispin.... It will still handle Burger King's
non-advertising activity, including sales promotions. Burger King spends £11m on advertising in the UK, its
second-biggest market outside the US. Crispin Porter was hired ...
advertising arrangements
follows the recent announcement that it is to review its European media
planning ...