20 Dec 2001
| by CRAIG SMITH, Editor
Yet again, the marketing industry has been forced into a defensive
position by suggestions that alcohol advertising and packaging should
carry health warnings. Not to react to such calls would be
foolhardy.
Yet to argue against them carries the danger that the industry could be
seen as...
20 Dec 2001
| by DANIEL ROGERS
TUI UK, formerly Thomson Travel Group, is planning a major
advertising review early next year following the appointment of a top
marketer this week.
The UK's biggest holiday company has named Hugh Edwards as director of
marketing as part of a restructuring that is designed to integrate...
20 Dec 2001
| by DANIEL ROGERS
Renault has struck a deal with Channel 4 to produce what it claims
is the first "truly interactive" ad on British TV.
Viewers will be able to interact with a Renault Clio commercial to order
a test drive or brochure without leaving the channel they are
watching.
The car-maker will...
20 Dec 2001
| by DANIEL ROGERS
When Channel 4 wheeled its new leader in front of the media pack
last week, he looked an unlikely chief executive for what is now a
high-profile British institution.
In contrast to the rather corporate C4 chairman Vanni Treves stiffly
perched next to him, Mark Thompson looked relaxed, sporting...
20 Dec 2001
| by Staff,
Brown-Forman, maker of Jack Daniels, and Allied Domecq.
The sale of Seagram's spirits division ...
19 Dec 2001
| by Daniel Rogers,
LONDON - TUI UK, formerly Thomson Travel Group, is planning a major advertising review early next year following the appointment of a top marketer this week.
17 Dec 2001
1. Close to You
Whoever came up with the idea to have Paul Daniels, Debbie McGee, Peter
Stringfellow et al maul the classic Carpenters tune was either a genius
or clinically insane - or both. But Lowe Lintas got Heineken on to the
front page of The Mirror.
2. Bohemian Like You
All ...
17 Dec 2001
Copywriters: Adam Chiappe, Matthew Saunby
Art directors: Adam Chiappe, Matthew Saunby
Director: Daniel ...
17 Dec 2001
Daniels and
Debbie McGee doing their Carpenters impersonation until you do. Hobson's
choice really ...
17 Dec 2001
1. Paul Daniels 1 million campaign of five
commercials all filmed, edited and screened in a single day to show
stayaway holidaymakers what they were missing.
3. Johnny Vegas/ITV Digital
A couch potato and his knitted monkey companion flogging ITV Digital
set-top boxes? Oh please ...