05 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
The complaint to the advertising watchdog concerned a BTopenworld leaflet advertising BTinternet's Anytime service, which stated several times that users could "surf the net whenever you want" and "you won't have to worry about the time you go online any more".
However, the Advertising Standards ...
30 Nov 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - United Business Media indicated no signs of recovery in the US advertising market...United said the fall at its high-tech CMP Media division was less than the market's 46.3% across-the-board drop and narrower than September's figure, which saw volumes shrink by 43.8%.
However, CMP increased its market share in October to 30.1% from 27.6%. For the year to date, the division's market share ...
16 Nov 2001
| by LEON JAUME, the executive creative director of WCRS
and the "Should have gone to Radio Rentals/Carphone Warehouse"
theme. But as its stated aim is to be liked ...
, an ad so grim I was reluctant to play it twice. It's for
the charity, Womankind, and states that one ...
16 Nov 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - United Business Media is set to exit the FTSE 100 index today to make way for mm02, BT...the UK's 100 biggest companies by market value. At yesterday's close, United was valued at 1.8bn, 300m ...
at yesterday's close and mmO2 had a market value of 7.2bn.
United fell 2.3% this morning to 525p ...
15 Nov 2001
| by Staff,
company has avoided VAT because of a 1997 Customs & Excise ruling, which states that non-UK ISPs ...
18 Oct 2001
| by Claire Billings,
United Nations diplomat in 1989. In 1991, he moved to the UK to set up a public affairs consultancy ...
12 Oct 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
main operating units.
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If you ...
10 Oct 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - Cable operator NTL is to axe around 300 jobs from its Swiss division, Cablecom, in a shake-up which could lead to the creation of more marketing jobs.
10 Oct 2001
| by Sylvia Westall,
A BT Cellnet leaflet, advertising mobile phones, offered free access to the mobile internet for a limited period each month.
The headline stated that the free minutes could be used for "mobile internet access in the UK and abroad", but the footnote contradicted the headline, stating that the offer ...
08 Oct 2001
that the promise of a new tomorrow keeps America strong, and NY Lotto (New York State's lottery) will be there when ...
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